44. Colonel Sir JOHN HOPEasked the President of the Local Government Board whether the Civil Liabilities Committee are empowered under existing Regulations to make or continue grants to soldiers who are now being disharged in order to enable them to continue to pay their contractual obligations until their businesses have recovered from their absence on military service?
§ Mr. PRATTThe existing Regulations do not provide for making or continuing grants to soldiers after discharge, but, as the House has been informed, the Government have now decided that financial assistance may be given after demobilisation on the lines of the existing Civil Liabilities scheme, and the necessary Regulations will be drawn accordingly.