§ 43. Sir I. Alberyasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any pamphlet is being issued explaining the present position concerning damage to property by enemy action and including information concerning compensation, replacement and rebuilding and the conditions for insurance of property, office and works equipment and household chattels?
§ Captain CrookshankAn explanatory pamphlet, known as Form C.IA, on claims under Part I of the War Damage Act has been issued by the War Damage Commission and is available, free of charge, to claimants at the Commission's Regional offices and at town halls and district valuers' offices. The Board of Trade have also issued explanatory leaflets on the Business and Private Chattels Schemes under Part II of that Act which are obtainable from the Board of Trade or from the insurance companies and Lloyds, who are acting as their agents. My right hon. Friend has arranged for the leaflet issued by the War Damage Commission to be available in the Vote Office, and I understand that the Board of Trade have made similar arrangements with regard to their leaflet.
§ 50. Mr. Ellis Smithasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that an assurance was given by the Government that assistance would be granted at once to people requiring it through enemy action, but that the Assistance Board now announce that the work of the Board is supplementary to any that might be done by any voluntary organisation; since when did the assistance granted by the Board become supplementary to charity granted; and can the position and the people's right be made quite clear?
§ Captain CrookshankThe assistance given by the Assistance Board is in no way supplementary to that given by voluntary organisations. The Chairman of the Board has on many occasions said that the work of voluntary bodies is complementary to -the assistance which the Board itself provides.