§ Sir JAMES YOXALLasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if his attention has been called to the practice of the War Office to withhold separation allowances when a soldier has been sentenced to imprisonment or detention for a term exceeding 28 days; whether he is aware that the effect of this is usually to east the charge upon the local relief committee, which has, in effect, to pay the separation allowance out of moneys raised for the relief of industrial distress arising from the War; and whether the practice in question will be reconsidered?
Mr. BAKERIt has been decided that separation allowance shall continue in these cases so long as the soldier remains in the Army.
§ Lord CHARLES BERESFORDasked the Under-Secretary for War if he will explain why Mrs. Fowles, Ivy Cottage, Little Budworth, is only receiving 5s. 6d. a week allowance from the War Office and 3s. 6d. a week allotment from her son, Trooper Harold Fowles, No. 145, Cheshire Yeomanry, seeing that the man and his mother were promised that the allowance would be 12s. a week from the War Office?
Mr. BAKERI have inquired into this case, and find that the payment is in accordance with the amount of dependency assessed by the local pension authorities, and that the claimant was stated to have been satisfied with the award.