§ Mr. HOGBINasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that Mr. Cecil G. Rayner, of 72, Albany Mansions, Battersea, S.W.11, who was for nearly four years a prisoner in Germany, and whose health suffered severely in 1797W consequence, claimed the sum of £2,000 from the Reparations Claims Department, and that only £201 was awarded; whether he is aware that Mr. Rayner's medical report stated that he was entitled to 40 per cent. incapacity allowance as a direct result of injury received during his imprisonment due to malnutrition, dysentery, and solitary confinement, and that the duration of his incapacity was stated to be indefinite; and, if so, whether, in view of the fact that Mr. Rayner is still incapacitated from obtaining employment through ill-health consequent upon his imprisonment and is suffering great hardship, his case will receive further consideration and an amount in accordance with that recommended in his medical report be awarded to him?
Mr. ALEXANDERThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. As to the second part of the question, I am afraid that the recommendations of the. Royal Commission are final and cannot be reviewed.