§ Mr. P. MEEHANasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Government are considering the advisability of granting to married Civil servants an additional war bonus for their children, as it is at present doing in the case of married Royal Irish Constabulary officials and as has already been granted to the London Metropolitan Police; and whether the Government will give reasonable consideration to the fact that married Civil servants with families naturally require a larger war bonus to tide them over the difficult times than unmarried Civil servants?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe question of an increase of the war bonus allowed to Civil servants was referred by His Majesty's Government to the Conciliation and Arbitration Board, under whose award no distinction was made between married and unmarried men. I am not prepared to reopen the question.