101. Mr. DOYLEasked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that ex-Private J. Henderson, 13, Honister Avenue, Newcastle-on-Tyne, has been examined by two doctors who certified that he was suffering from organic nervous disease (disseminated sclerosis) due to War service that these opinions were supported by the medical board but was not concurred in by the medical advisers to the Ministry: that on this ground alone his application for pension was disallowed; and whether, in view of these and other facts in possession of the Ministry, the ease may he reopened?
§ Major TRYONAfter full consideration of all the available evidence my medical advisers were unable to regard the disability from which this man suffers as being connected with his service, which had ended some two and a half years before he first made claim to pension. The consequent decision of the Ministry rejecting the claim to pension was confirmed on 2053 appeal by the independent pensions appeal tribunal, before which all the evidence., including the opinion of the medical board referred to in the question, was laid, and is now, therefore, final.