§ Colonel ASHLEYasked the Minister of National Service whether, in view of the concession granted to those discharged men who have received their wages or other allowances from their former employers of returning to their employment on the footing that their work should be considered of national importance, he will consider the advisability of extending the concession to discharged men who were in business on their own account before they enlisted and who commence business on their own account on returning to civil life?
§ Mr. PRATTMy right hon. Friend is happy to state that it has been possible to extend the concession to discharged soldiers and sailors referred to by my hon. and gallant Friend to meet the case of a man who was engaged in a one-man business before he enlisted and who returned and resumed the business which it has been possible to maintain for him during his absence.