§ Mr. RAWLINSONasked the Minister of Pensions whether his attention has been called to the case of Mr. Herbert Knott, who served in the South African War, was mobilised on 4th August, 1914, on the strength of the 1st Cambridgeshire Regiment, being classed in Category A, having always enjoyed the best of health, was subsequently in hospital at Shorncliffe suffering from neurasthenia, served in France from September, 1918, and was demobilised from the East Lancashire Regiment on 27th January, 1919, and died of pneumonia on 15th July, 1919; if the appeal of his widow who is in bad health and without means for a pension was dismissed on 4th July, 1920, despite the fact that his doctor certified that active service was largely responsible for the fact that he succumbed to his illness; and whether, having regard to the doctor's certificate and to the strong representation unanimously made on her behalf by the Cambridge Local Pensions Committee, he will cause further inquiry to be made with the case and a pension granted to the widow or her child?
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§ Major TRYONI would remind my hon. Friend that the Pensions Appeal Tribunal which considered and rejected this widow's claim to pension, is an independent body under the jurisdiction of the Lord Chancellor, and as the decisions of the Tribunal are, by Statute, final my right hon. Friend has no authority to reopen the case.