§ 21. Mr. HOGGEasked the financial Secretary to the War Office whether Voluntary Aid Detachment nursing members who have worked in military hospitals receive gratuity; whether Voluntary Aid Detachment general service members working in the same hospitals receive no gratuity; whether, if a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse has served any part of her time as a general service member, she is debarred from gratuity; and whether he can revise these anomalies?
§ Mr. FORSTERThe facts arc as stated, except that a nurse is not debarred from gratuity on her service as such by reason of previous service in a non-professional capacity. The nursing members receive gratuity because they are part of the nursing service; the general service members receive, instead, furlough and out-of-work donation on termination on the same lines as members of the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. It is not proposed to make any change.