HL Deb 02 August 1944 vol 133 cc110-1
VISCOUNT CRANBORNE

My Lords, before I move the adjournment of the House I should like to make a very brief explanation. A few moments ago I gave your Lordships certain figures relating to a lady who had applied for an education allowance for her children and had not received one, and I told your Lordships, with regard to the income of her husband, that before the war he was receiving £148 a year. I went on to say that if he had not died his income to-day, with increments and war bonus, would be £225 a year; but in some subsequent remarks which I made I am afraid I gave the impression that that would have been his Service pay. That is not the case; what I should have said was that £225 a year would be the civilian pay which he would be receiving at the present time, with increments and war bonus. That is precisely the figure for which the noble Earl asked at an earlier stage. I feel that I misled the House, and I have therefore thought it right to make this immediate explanation.