HC Deb 15 July 1925 vol 186 cc1311-2W
Captain BOWYER

asked the Minister of Pensions in how many cases of final awards the case has been re-opened on the ground that the final award should never have been made: and for how long such a claim is open to an ex-service man after his payments under the final award have ceased.

Major TRYON

I find that in about 800 cases further grants have been made under special sanction on the ground that, following medical treatment and observation, it was found that serious and permanent error had occurred in the assessment of the case for final award owing to faulty diagnosis or prognosis of the case. With regard to the last part of the question, it is not material to the decision that payments under the final award may have ceased to be made.