34. Mr. TREVELYA Nasked the Minister of National Service whether he is aware that complaints are made by men engaged in one-man businesses that the National Service representative brings a successful appeal against large numbers of the decisions of local tribunals before the appeal tribunals composed of strangers 873 to the locality where the business is situated; and whether, in order to mitigate the sense of hardship and injustice, he will give instructions to the National Service representative at least not to appeal where there is unanimity in the decision of the local tribunal?
§ The MINISTER of NATIONAL SERVICE (Sir A. Geddes)I am afraid that I cannot add anything to the reply given on the 19th of June by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to my hon. Friend the Member for the West Derby Division of Liverpool. As I informed my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough on 11th July, the arrangements which were made last autumn to secure fair and just treatment for the proprietors of one-man businesses remain in force, and are, I believe, being most carefully carried out. If the hon. Member knows of any case in which they have not been observed, and will communicate particulars to me, I shall have full inquiries made.