§ 14. Mr. W. J. Brownasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that, as the Government's interim demobilisation plan makes no provision for exceptional treatment of officers and other ranks relegated to low medical categories unfitting them for further combatant service, such persons are now retained on sedentary work in home establishments; and whether to facilitate their rehabilitation in civilian life, he will arrange that persons sent back to this country on relegation to medical category C may be granted honourable discharge in advance of the demobilisation plan.
§ Sir J. GriggNo, Sir. The present man-power position does not enable us to dispense with the services of officers and men who can be usefully employed in the 9 Army. Those working in home establishments are in fact releasing fitter men for employment overseas.