§ 56. Mr. Kennedyasked the Minister of Pensions whether it is intended that in cases where serving soldiers' wives have been receiving a special children's allowance the special grant should now be automatically reduced by the amount of the increase in the new rates?
§ Sir W. WomersleyAs the grants recommended by the War Service Grants Advisory Committee are based on the fact that the family was suffering serious hardship, and as that hardship is mitigated, in cases where there are children in the home, by the increase in payments made by the Service Departments, the grants recommended by the Committee must necessarily be adjusted on that account.
§ Mr. KennedyIs not this rather a mean committee?
§ Sir W. WomersleyI should not describe it as anything of the kind. We are dealing with hardship cases and we are dealing with them on fair and square lines.