§ Captain BULLOCKasked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that many widows just after the War accepted lump sums in settlement of applications for assistance in respect of the death of their sons on active service; that such widows now find themselves unable to obtain further help; and whether his Department will undertake to investigate sympathetically all such claims to see if some additional help can be given, at all events in cases where the original grant was of a trifling character?
§ Mr. F. O. ROBERTSThe hon. and gallant Member has, I think, been misinformed. It was not the practice after the War to pay a lump sum by way of composition of a claim to pension to
650Wlast part of the question, I have no information.
which a dependent parent was entitled under the Royal Warrants. In any case, however, any parent whose son was killed on service is still entitled to claim pension subject to the regulations of the Warrant, if and when he or she becomes incapable of self-support and is in pecuniary need.