§ 24. Mr Vernon Bartlettasked the Secretary of State for War why a wife's family allowance and war service grant are automatically stopped if her husband is absent from his regiment without leave for more than seven days; and whether he will adopt some procedure to lessen the hardship thus inflicted upon a guiltless third party.
§ Sir J. GriggI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave him on 18th April.