HC Deb 06 May 1920 vol 128 c2204
5. Mr. GRANT

asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that decisions come to by the local medical referee in the cases of disabled soldiers, whom he has personally examined, can be arbitrarily overruled by the Deputy Commissioner of Medical Service without this official having had opportunity of personal inspection of the cases; and if he can see his way to alter this Regulation?

Mr. MACPHERSON

I am sending my hon. Friend a copy of the revised Circular 804, from which he will observe that the Deputy Commissioner of Medical Services cannot overrule the medical referee on a question of treatment allowances unless and until the man has been re-examined either by the Deputy Commissioner himself or by a medical officer of the region.