§ 1. Captain LOSEBYasked the Pensions Minister if he will consider the advisability of issuing a tabulated statement showing the extent to which the Government have accepted or rejected the recommendations of the Select Committee on pensions?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of PENSIONS (Major Tryon)As the hon. and gallant Member is no doubt aware, the extent to which the recommendations in the First Report were accepted by the Government was fully explained in the course of the Debate on the Ministry of Pensions Vote on 31st July last. Similarly the recommendations of the Second Report were dealt with in detail in a written statement circulated with the OFFICIAL REPORT of the 4th ultimo. In these circumstances it does not appear to my right hon. Friend that the expense of preparing and printing a tabulated statement would be justified.
§ 2. Captain LOSEBYasked the Pensions Minister if, in accordance with the recommendation of the Select Committee on Pensions, the constant attendance allowance is now made to totally disabled soldiers wounded prior to 1914?
§ Major TRYONThe answer is in the negative. If the hon. and gallant Member will refer to the statement circulated with the OFFICIAL REPORT of the 4th March, he will see that the only additional benefit which it was found practicable to give to pensioners of former wars, as a result of the Select Committee's recommendation, was the grant of rank pensions to the widows of non-commissioned officers.