§ Major BREESEasked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that Griffith John Edwards, of Friars Cottage, Bangor, ex-Gunner, No. 310,450, Royal Garrison Artillery, was removed to the North Wales Counties Asylum at Denbigh on the 26th December, 1919, certified as insane, and admitted as a pauper patient chargeable to the Bangor and Beaumaris Union; whether the account for cost of removal expenses was duly forwarded to 2614W the proper quarter through the Carnarvonshire Local War Pensions Committee, but, owing to the delay in the Medical Branch of the Ministry in determining if the malady was due to or aggravated by military service, the account has not yet been paid; and whether, as seven months have now elapsed, a decision can be reached without further delay, with a view to the account being paid and this ex-soldier placed in the category of the service class patients?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe facts in this case are substantially as stated. Some delay, which I greatly regret, occurred in obtaining the information necessary to enable the Ministry to determine whether the insanity in the case of Mr. Edwards, which had occurred long after his demobilisation, could be held to be due to his war service. The matter has recently, however, been satisfactorily settled, and the man has been classed as a service patient. I may add that the removal expenses have also been refunded to the guardians.