§ 1. Mr. SHORTasked the Minister of Pensions what is the number and amount of the grants made by the Special Grants Committee for the education of children of deceased and disabled officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, respectively, during 1926?
§ The MINISTER OF PENSIONS (Major Tryon)The total number of grants (including both first and subsequent grants) made by the Special Grants Committee under their regulations for the education of children, during the year 1926, was, in the case of deceased and disabled officers, 736, and in the case of deceased and disabled non-commissioned officers and men, 6,318. The actual amount of these grants cannot be stated, but the expenditure by the Special Grants Committee on grants 1334 for education during 1926, was, in the case of officers, £12,926, and in the case of non-commissioned officers and men, £79,232.