§ Mr. O'SHAUGHNESSYasked the Minister of Pensions whether the pension of Private, Joseph Cosgrove, No. 3690, No. 1 Company, Irish Guards, at present in the Red Cross Hospital, Bray, county Wicklow, who was wounded in both legs at the Battle of Mons, owing to which one of them had to be amputated one inch from the hip, thereby rendering him helpless was reduced from 25s. a week to 12s. 6d. a week; whether, having regard to the above facts, the pension of 12s. 6d. a week is the proper pension under the old rate; and what his pension will be under the new scale and when it will come into force?
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§ Sir A. GRIFFITH-BOSCAWENI would refer the hon. Member to the answer given by me to a similar question regarding the case on the 17th February last. Te medical reports show that the length of the stump is 4 inches, and Cosgrove has been awarded the correct scheduled rate of 12s. 6d. The corresponding rate under the proposed Warrant, which will take effect from the first pay day in April, will be 16s. 6d. a week. Cosgrove is, however, being retained in. hospital, and the grant of 25s. to which I referred in my previous reply has been extended for two months. If a further amputation is necessary and his case is treated as a "hip amputation." he would become under the terms of the proposed Warrant entitled to a pension of 22s. a week.