§ Mr. W. BAKERasked the Treasurer of the Household whether it is proposed 428W to abolish the Bristol Appeal Court; is he aware that in the event of such abolition the people of Bristol and Gloucestershire will be compelled to travel to Exeter, Birmingham, or London; and whether, as this will involve great hardship in the case of widows of advanced years, he will reconsider any such decision or, alternatively, will arrange for such appellants to be escorted from the London terminus to the appeals tribunal in London?
§ Colonel GIBBSNo assessment tribunal has recently sat at Bristol, owing to the very small number of appeals received from that area. In order to avoid the delay which would have resulted from waiting until sufficient cases had accumulated to enable a Court to sit there, appellants from the Bristol area are being summoned before the tribunal either at Exeter or London, whichever is most convenient. The entitlement tribunal, by which all widows' case are heard, continues to sit periodically at Bristol to deal with entitlement appeals from that area.