§ 84. Mr. MARRIOTTasked the Secretary for War whether he is aware of the great hardship inflicted upon disabled men and others who are applicants for Grants from the Military Service (Civil Liabilities) Commission by reason of the great delay in granting or refusing their applications; whether he can accelerate the machinery for dealing with such claims; and, if not, whether he will retransfer this work to the King's Fund, by which the claims were promptly and satisfactorily dealt with?
The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir R. Home)I have been asked to answer this question. I am aware that there has been some delay in dealing with eases transferred to the Civil Liabilities Department from the King's Fund; but, as I explained on the 25th June to the hon. and gallant Member for Willesden West, one general reason for this is the large number of uninvestigated or only partly investigated cases handed over to the Department en bloc in April last. I am arranging for an increase of staff to deal with these cases, and thus expedite their settlement. It would not be practicable to re-transfer.