§ 3. Mr. PENNEFATHERasked the Pensions Minister whether his attention has been drawn to Article 11 of the Officers' Pensions Warrant, whereby the widow and children of an officer killed in action receive gratuities in addition to their pensions, whereas the widow and children of an officer who dies of a disease directly due to his services do not even get a gratuity; and if he has any statement to make on the subject?
§ Sir J. CRAIGThe widow and children of an officer who dies of disease directly due to service are granted pensions, but not gratuities in addition. In the review of the Regulations which, as I informed the House yesterday, is now being undertaken, the point to which my hon. Friend calls attention will, I can assure him, be most sympathetically considered.