§ Mr. ALFRED DAVIES (Clitheroe)asked the Minister of Pensions whether treatment allowances can be withdrawn from a disabled man who, owing to his disability, is unable to follow his present occupation, and who is receiving outpatient treatment but is certified fit for easy light work, or whether he is entitled to receive full-treatment allowances pending his return to his own employment?
§ Major TRYONFor cases of out-patient treatment special provision is made by Article 6 of the Royal Warrant in the form of an allowance for loss of remunerative time. Full allowances at the maximum rate of pension (to which the hon. Member appears to refer) are only payable where a pensioner who is certified to need a course of treatment is judged to be unable in consequence to provide for his own support and that of his family. The question whether in any given case the time occupied in or other circumstances attending the course of treatment prescribed are such to entitle the man to the maximum allowances must be decided on the facts of the case.