§ After due consideration of all the figures put forward by the Admiralty, War Office, and Air Ministry, the War Cabinet summarise their decisions under this heading as follows:
- (a) That no alteration should be made in the rates laid down for a wife only or for children over fourteen years of age.
- (b) That where there is one child under the age of fourteen in the family the weekly rate of separation allowance shall be increased by 2s. 6d.
- (c) That where there are two or more children under the age of fourteen in the family the weekly rate of separation allowance shall be increased by 4s. 6d.
- (d) For motherless children under fourteen years of age the weekly rate of separation allowance for one child maintained in a home shall be increased by 3s.
- (e) That the weekly rate of separation allowance for the second and subsequent motherless children maintained in one home shall be increased by 1s. for each child.
- (f) That these increased allowances shall be payable as from the first pay day in October, 1918.
§ It is estimated that the cost of the above proposals will be, approximately, £14,000,000 a year for the three Services.