§ Mr. STANTONasked the President of the Board of Education if he is aware that ex-service teachers who are no longer A 1 medical category, through wounds or other disablement contracted on military service, do not become entitled to the death gratuity under the terms of the Education Act, 1918; is he aware that in order to ascertain their present medical state these disabled ex-service teachers are compelled to undergo a medical examination at their own expense, and should the result be that they are below B 1 their next-of-kin will receive no gratuity; and whether, seeing that the medical state of these men was A 1 on 239W entering His Majesty's forces, and that a teacher who stayed at home because of unfitness can claim the benefit for his next-of-kin, he will take steps to rectify this state of affairs?
§ Mr. FISHERI would refer the hon. Member to the answers which I gave on 16th February to the hon. Member for Walsall (Sir R. Cooper) and on 18th February to the hon. Member for East Cardiff (Sir W. Seager). I may add that it is not the case that ex-service men whose category was below B 1 are regarded as ineligible for a death gratuity. The total number of ex-service teachers held to be ineligible for death gratuities is only 35.