§ 34. Mr. SMEDLEY CROOKEasked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that disabled men are being refused treatment by the Ministry for diseases which have at one time been accepted as attributable to service; and whether he will take steps to see in cases of attributable disability that treatment is at all times available for disabled men?
§ The MINISTER of PENSIONS (Major Tryon)Wherever it is established that the present condition of a previously accepted disability, whether attributable to or aggravated by war service, is due to such service, any special course of treatment certified to be necessary is provided.
§ 35. Mr. SMEDLEY CROOKEasked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that hardship exists in certain cases of widows pensioned under Article 17b of the 1924 Royal Warrant in that they are refused pension at the alternative rates; and whether he will take steps to ensure that the terms of the 1919 Warrant regarding alternative pension be made to apply to all war widows irrespective of the date of the late husband's death?
§ Major TRYONArticle 17b of the Royal Warrant represented a considerable extension of the provision formerly made for widows of pensioners dying many years after discharge or demobilisation, and the substantial improvement in the rate of pension then made, with the addition of allowances for children, was intended to be in full satisfaction of claims arising under the new Article. I am not prepared to recommend any modification of the present provision.