HC Deb 26 November 1917 vol 99 cc1655-6W
Mr. SHIRLEY BENN

asked the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the separation allowance was stopped for a period of several weeks to the wife and six children of a sailor, whose official number is 161,838, on board His Majesty's Ship "Warspite; " and by what means this family was intended to subsist during the period in question?

Dr. MACNAMARA

I am familiar with the case to which this question refers. I should be glad if my hon. Friend would go into it with me. He may then consider whether or not he would wish to put a further question