§ Mr. Dixonasked the Secretary of State for Defence whether Service personnel 428W qualify for prescribed diseases, P.D.25, payments; or whether separate military arrangements exist.
§ Mr. HayhoeMembers of the Forces do not qualify for any payments under the industrial injuries legislation. Instead, they are covered by the war pensions scheme which, since 3 September 1939, has been administered by the Department of Health and Social Security. The war pensions scheme covers any disease contracted by a member of the Forces, whether in peacetime or in war, which is accepted as being attributable to, or aggravated by, service in Her Majesty's Forces and provides for a pension or gratuity related to degree of disability If the hon. Member has a particular case in mind I would be glad if he would write about it either to me, or if the disease was contracted after 2 September 1939. to my right hon. Friend, the Minister for Social Security.