§ 3. Mr. PIELOUasked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that Mr. C. G. Pearce, late private, No. 203329, Wiltshire Regiment, was treated at the Middlesex Hospital on the 7th November, 1922, for a disability which has since been accepted by his Department as due to service in the Great War; whether his Department has consistently refused to pay treatment allowances for the period during which this man was in the Middlesex Hospital; and whether he will take steps to see that the allowances sanctioned by the Royal Warrant are conferred upon this disabled man?
§ Major TRYONIn the exceptional circumstances of this case it has been decided to authorise payment of the claim to retrospective treatment allowances, and instructions are being given accordingly.