§ 12. Lieut.-Colonel HURSTasked the Minister of Pensions whether the Ministry has any authority to require the officers who are patients at Grangethorpe Hospital, Manchester, to fill in forms with regard to their receipt or non-receipt of salaries, wages, or workmen's compensation, as a condition precedent to the payment to them of additional retired pay; and, if not, whether he will take steps to withdraw a memorandum, of the 8th February issued to that effect from the Ministry's office in Chadwick Street, S.W., and to direct payment of all arrears due to the officers in question?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONArticle 6 of the Royal Warrant of 2nd July, 1920, provides that the retired pay of an officer under treatment may be raised to the maximum if the officer is deemed unable in consequence of the treatment to provide for his own support and that of his family. If the officer continues, under his contract of service, to draw full salary or wages from his employer his ability to support himself and his family is not affected by treatment and the forms are issued to obtain the necessary information on this point.