HC Deb 07 March 1918 vol 103 cc2107-8
29. Mr. WATT

asked the Minister of National Service, whether men of forty-one, of military age and military fitness. are permitted exemption on the ground of repairing fences, working the electric light installation of a mansion house, looking after the gravitation water, and cutting timber for the same; and whether discharged soldiers have been found unfit for these posts?

The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of NATIONAL SERVICE (Mr. Beck)

Any exemptions of the kind indicated by the hon. Member must have been granted by a tribunal. If the hon. Member produces specific cases of alleged improper exemption, they will be inquired into.

Mr. WATT

May we take it from what the hon. Gentleman has said that if such a case as this exists, it is traceable to undue influence with the tribunal?

Mr. BECK

I did not say that.