§ Mr. SHORTasked the Minister of Pensions the number of cases of ex-service men suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis in which, after a report from the Ministry's medical officers stating that their condition was attributable to war service, the Ministry referred the applicants to the Pensions Appeal Tribunal; and in how many cases the claim to a pension has been upheld and in how many rejected?
§ Major TRYONThe records of my Department are not kept in such a form as to enable me to give this information without incurring a very considerable amount of additional work involving the examination of many thousand individual files.