§ 29. Mr. Radfordasked the Minister of Labour whether all the survivors of the 1,280,000 ex-service men who have received a disability pension at any time since the beginning of the Great War are 1374 eligible for employment under the King's National Roll scheme in common with the 400,000 men in the United Kingdom who now receive pensions for permanent war disablement; and does the total of 316,776 employed under the scheme include past and present pensioners in unknown proportions?
§ Mr. E. BrownThe King's Roll scheme is intended to encourage the employment of ex-service men who are still in receipt of disability pensions or have commuted permanent disability pensions. An employer may, however, continue to count towards his Kings' Roll quota, a man whose disability pension has been withdrawn since the employer engaged him; such a man would not count towards another employer's quota if he left his present employment. The answer to the last part of the question is, therefore, in the affirmative. I will let my hon. Friend have a copy of the leaflet explaining the King's Roll scheme.