§ 18. Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether in view of the fact that an average of over 1,300 men are invalided out each year from His Majesty's Navy, and that, in the event of their claiming that their disability has been contracted on service, their only right to appeal is to the Admiralty, which is entirely guided in its decisions by its own medical staff, he can see his way to establish some independent tribunal such as that which exists for the benefit of War pensioners at which the men may be represented and their cases verbally argued?
Mr. DAVIDSONI would refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. and gallant Member for North Portsmouth (Sir B. Falle) on the 8th February—[OFFICIAL REPORT, Column 632]—and can only add that the matter is still under consideration.