§ Mr. MARRIOTTasked the Prime Minister whether it is proposed, by legislation or Order, to protect soldiers and civilians whose war work interfered with their ordinary avocations and residence from losses falling on them through the operation of the Statutes of Limitation; whether he is aware that the long duration of the War has rendered many debts owing to soldiers legally irrecoverable, and that the men who volunteered earliest will be the heaviest losers; and whether the Government will propose legislation enacting that the legal period of the duration of the War shall be disregarded in deciding whether a debt is Statute barred?
§ Sir GORDON HEWARTMy right hon. Friend has asked me to reply to this question. There is, so far as I know, no proposal for any such legislation as is men- 765W tioned in the question, nor am I aware that a case for such legislation is made out.