§ 2. Mr. T. WILLIAMSasked the Minister of Pensions how many ex-service men are in receipt of conditional pensions whose injuries were received in the years 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918, and whose pensions have remained stationary for four years?
§ Major TRYONThe records of my Department are not kept in such form as to disclose the particulars asked for, but the great majority of all cases of injury in which pension has been current for four years or more have either received final awards or are about to be considered for final awards.
§ Mr. WILLIAMSIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that there are thousands of men who have been examined in the past four, five and six years, and whose pensions remain stationary; and since these men, with their small pensions, find it impossible to secure work or to keep themselves, will he facilitate the commutation of the persons where they desire it?
§ Major TRYONThe question of commutation raises a different point. I think it is greatly against the interests of the pensioner, as a rule, to commute pensions. It leaves him with nothing.