§ Lieut.-Colonel BUCHANANasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any provision has been made to give financial assistance to those men whose lives were insured prior to the War and who, owing to their having joined the Army, were put to considerable expense in additional premiums to cover war risks?
§ Sir R. HORNEI have been asked to answer this question. The payment of insurance premiums is among the contractual obligations towards which the Civil Liabilities Department is authorised to make grants in cases of serious hardship arising out of service with His Majesty's Forces. But it has been decided that no such grants can be made in respect of extra premiums to cover war risks for which the Government themselves have made provision by other means,e.g., by pension or gratuities in cases of death or disablement in the service of His Majesty's Forces.