Mr. T. WILSONasked the Food Controller whether he is aware that John Ellis, of Hedgeway Road, New Marston, Oxford, was permanently disabled on 2nd March, 1918, while employed by the Government Food Production Department of Headington, through the non-provision of a guard on the pulley wheel of the motor tractor on which he was working; whether he now receives a pension of £l 4s. 7d., being half his wage and war bonus, on which he has to maintain himself, his wife, and child, while he has himself to live on an invalid diet; and whether, in view of the impossibility of three people existing on such a sum, the authorities can make more generous provision in this ease?
Sir A. BOSCAWENMr. John Ellis was injured while in the service of the Food Production Department of the Board of Agriculture, and the Treasury have authorised the maximum amount of compensation payable under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906, and the Workmen's Compensation (War Addition) Act, 1917. I regret that the Department have no power to authorise the payment of compensation in excess of that provided by the Acts.