HC Deb 10 February 1947 vol 433 cc1477-9

Resolution reported: That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to provide for 1he application of the Royal Warrant as to pensions, etc., for the military forces to certain Polish forces, to enable the Assistance Board to meet the needs of, and to provide accommodation in camps or other establishments for, certain Poles and others associated with Polish forces, to provide for their requirements as respects health an educational services, and to provide for making arrangements and meeting expenses in connection with their emigration, it is expedient— (A) To authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of—

  1. (i) payments under any scheme for applying the said Royal Warrant, with effect from such date before or after the passing of the said Act as may be specified in the scheme, in relation to the disablement or death of members of the Polish Naval detachment mentioned in the agreement made between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Government of Poland on the eighteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, the Polish armed forces organised and employed under British command in pursuance of the agreement made as aforesaid on the fifth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty, or the Polish resettlement forces;
  2. (ii) payments under any provision made by such a scheme for continuing, for not more than one year from the coming into opera- 1478 tion of that provision, payments being them made in respect of disablement or death of members of other Polish forces;
  3. (iii) any increase in the sums payable out of such moneys under Section six of the. Determination of Needs Act, Too, attributable to any provisions of the said Act of the present Session for—
    1. (a) the grant of allowances by the Assistance Board to Poles in the United Kingdom in consequence of war circumstances, and the application for the purposes of the grant of such allowances of any provisions of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934, or of rules and regulations thereunder;
    2. (b) the provision by or on behalf of the Assistance Board for such Poles of accommodation in camps, hostels or other establishments, or the making by or on behalf of the said Board of provision for meeting the needs, and promoting the welfare, of persons for whom the accommodation is provided;
    and any increase so attributable in the sums payable out of such moneys under section forty-seven of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934 (which relates to salaries and allowances of staff of the Assistance Board and of appeal tribunals and expenses of Government departments);
  4. (iv) any expenses incurred by the Minister of Health or the Secretary of State, or by the Minister of Education or the Secretary of State, in the making by him or on his behalf of provision for meeting respectively needs as to mental or bodily health, and educational needs, of such Poles;
  5. (v) any expenses incurred by the Minister of Labour and National Service in making 1479 arrangements and providing facilities in connection with the emigration of such Poles;
(B) To authorise the payment into the Exchequer of any sums received by the Assistance Board under the said Act of the present Session by way of payments from such Poles, or from persons under obligation to maintain them, for accommodation, allowances or other benefits provided for them under the said Act or otherwise in respect of their maintenance, or received by the Board under the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934, by virtue of any application of provisions of that Act by the said Act of the present Session. In this Resolution references to Poles in the United Kingdom in consequence of war circumstances include references to persons in the United Kingdom being members or former members of forces mentioned in paragraph (A (i) of this Resolution, and to persons in the United Kingdom specified in the said Act of the present Session by reference to their relationship to or dependence on any such Poles, members or former members, or to or on any body of Polish forces entering the United Kingdom.