§ Captain DOUGLAS HALLasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if the younger children in soldiers' families only receive a separation allowance of 2s. per week as provided by Army Order 367/15; if, in the case of such children whose mothers are in prison and the fathers on active service, it has been found impossible to board the said children out (unless the whole family can be received into the same home) owing to the amount received; if, in consequence, these children have to be sent to the workhouse; and if he proposes to take any action to prevent injustice in this regard to the fathers on active service?
§ Mr. FORSTERNo, Sir. In the circumstances mentioned by my hon. and gallant Friend—that is, where the mother is in prison and the father on active service—the children are entitled to separation allowance at what is called the "motherless rate" of 5s. each per week.