§ Brigadier-General SURTEESasked the Minister of Pensions how many old soldiers are at the present time inmates of workhouses, and how many of these took part in the recent War; and whether his Department can take steps to remove the indignity and scandal of allowing these men to be treated as paupers?
§ Major TRYONThe number of old soldiers in Poor Law Institutions is not known to this Department, which only 2405W deals with war disablement. As regards the latter part of the question, arrangements are made by which the admission of a soldier, disabled in the late War, to a Poor Law Institution is notified to the Local War Pensions Committee in order that if the case is one which the Ministry are able to assist (as, for instance, where the man needs medical treatment for disabilities due to his war service, or where his pension is found to be inadequate to the existing degree of his disablement), the Local Committee may at once take the necessary action.