§ 1. Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLEasked the Minister of Pensions why the higher rates of children's allowances, prescribed by Article 18 (1) of the Pensions Warrant of 1919, for motherless children of a deceased soldier are refused to cases in which the mother remarried and subsequently died, leaving the children under the care of their step-father?
§ Major TRYONThe rates of allowance for any children of a widow who remarries are payable at the rates prescribed by Article 16. In the event of her death, the same rates continue to be payable, unless the children are removed from the care of the step-father, in which case it has been arranged that the higher rates allowed by Article 18 shall be paid.
§ Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLEDoes that mean that, so long as the step-father keeps the children under his roof, he has no allowance for them, but that if he throws them out they will get the allowance?
§ Major TRYONIt means that draw the same allowance as they drawing before their mother died.
§ Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLEBut does that mean that they are not qualified for the allowance laid down in Article 18 (1) for motherless children?
§ Major TRYONNot as long as they are living with their step-father.