HC Deb 10 May 1916 vol 82 c683W
Mr. HANCOCK

asked the Home Secretary whether miners who were appointed by their fellow employés to represent them at the Recruiting Court and who lost wages and incurred expense in doing so can be recompensed for such loss by the State; and, if so, how and to what extent?

Mr. SAMUEL

I am afraid it would not be possible for me to ask the Treasury to bear the cost of representation in these cases. In all other cases where a party to an application for exemption appoints someone to represent him before the Courts or local tribunals, the expense, if there be any, falls upon the person making the appointment, and there do not appear to be any grounds on which I could justify an exception being made in regard to these cases.