§ 32. Mr. JOWETTasked the President of the Local Government Board if a widow whose late husband was killed during an enemy air raid on an English town and who has been in receipt of 12s. 6d. a week for herself and her child of eighteen months from the Prince of Wales's Fund is obliged to accept £140 in final settlement as she has been called upon to do; if he is able to state whether the amount offered is in accordance with a scale which is being generally applied, if there is such a scale; and, if so, whether he will go into the matter with the Committee concerned with a view to the scale being amended?
§ Mr. BALDWINCompensation is being paid in these cases as an act of grace in pursuance of the pledge given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons on 28th June last. The amount of compensation awarded is assessed in the same manner as it would be assessed if the cases fell under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906. If the hon. Member will furnish me with sufficient detail to identify the case which he has in mind, I will inquire into the circumstances, and I will inform him of the result.