§ Sir T. BRAMSDONasked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that up to June, 1917, many disabilities were looked upon as not attributable to the service, but subsequently medical opinion has modified and these disabilities are now considered in some cases to be attributable to or aggravated by the service; and whether, as a matter of equitable treatment, all pensions could be reviewed from the present policy of the Ministry, observing that the men are unaware of what they are entitled to, and therefore cannot be expected to apply?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONPensions Appeal Tribunals have been established to deal with appeals against the decision that a man's disability was neither caused nor aggravated by his service with the forces, and wide publicity has been given in the public Press and through the medium of local War Pensions Committees and ex-service men's associations to the existence of this right of appeal. Any man who was invalided in the earlier years of the War with a disability held to be not attributable to service, and who has not yet appealed to an appeal tribunal, may now put forward his claim through his local War Pensions Committee, and the claim so made will be reconsidered by the Ministry before submission to the tribunal.