HC Deb 15 October 1946 vol 427 cc152-3W
72. Mr. H. Hynd

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why Mr. Bernard Starszak, formerly of the Polish Army, is receiving a payment of £5 4s. 9d per week from the interim Treasury committee for Polish questions; and what allowance would be paid to a British subject in his circumstances under the Assistance Board, by the public assistance committee for his area, or as unemployment benefit.

Mr. Dalton

Mr. Starszak is a disabled and destitute ex-Serviceman, with a wife and two children, and is living in a foreign country. Such a case must excite sympathy, but the allowance now being paid to him exceeds that which the Assistance Board would pay in similar circumstances, and I have given instructions for the case to be further examined.