Mr. SHIRLEY BENNasked the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the separation allowance was stopped for a period of several weeks to the wife and six children of a sailor, whose official number is 161,838, on board His Majesty's Ship "Warspite; " and by what means this family was intended to subsist during the period in question?
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§ Dr. MACNAMARAI am familiar with the case to which this question refers. I should be glad if my hon. Friend would go into it with me. He may then consider whether or not he would wish to put a further question