§ Mr. R. MORRISONasked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that 11/M/98,815, J. Burton, 177, Tower Gardens Road, Tottenham, who, from 1900 to 1921 served in the Army 15 years and seven months, and is now permanently unfit owing to paraplegia, is left entirely without means of livelihood except from the Poor Law; and will he give sympathetic consideration on compassionate grounds to this man?
§ Major TRYONAs the hon. Member has already been informed, this man has made claims in respect of several disabilities, but it has not been possible to accept them as attributable to or aggravated by his war service, and on four occasions the Independent Pensions Appeal Tribunal has disallowed his appeal. I regret that in these circumstances I am not empowered to make any award of pension.