§ Captain ELLIOTasked the Chief Secretary whether advances from local taxation accounts in payment of compensation for injuries have been, up to the present, made only to members of the Crown forces; and whether it is possible to compensate from the same source innocent persons who have suffered injury at the hands of members of the Crown forces?
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§ Mr. HENRYExcept in a few cases where small advances have been made, the only payments of compensation for injury to person or property that have been made from the Local Taxation Account have been to Crown servants and their dependants or public departments. In regard to the second part of the question, I would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the reply given by the Prime Minister to a similar question by the hon. and gallant Member for Leith (Captain W. Benn) on the 2nd June.