§ Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCKasked the Minister of Pensions if he has received a resolution from the Nottingham and District War Pensions Committee, in which they urge him to review the whole system of final awards, on the grounds that the present system involves undue hardship and even injustice in many cases; and whether, in view of the number of unsuccessful appeals and the dissatisfaction existing among the appellants at their treatment, he will cause the whole system to be inquired into?
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Mr. MUIRMy right hon. Friend has not yet received the resolution referred to. I may, however, remind the Noble, Lord that my right hon. Friend has, as indicated in his reply to the hon. and gallant Member for East Rhondda (Lieut. Colonel Watts-Morgan) on 27th March last (of which I am sending him a copy) put in operation arrangements which will enable cases in which an award is found to have been erroneously declared final to be amended.