§ Mr. NAYLORasked the Minister of Pensions whether he will cause further inquiries to be made into the case of Driver H. Constable, No. 49,196, Royal Garrison Artillery, who has been deprived of his pension on the ground that the paralysis by which he is now incapacitated was not due to spinal injury while on war service?
§ Major BARNSTONAfter full and careful consideration of all the circumstances, the Ministry was unable to admit that the paralysis from which this man now suffers was due to or aggravated by service or was in any way connected with the slight injury to his back which he sustained in 1918. This decision, having been confirmed by the Pensions Appeal Tribunal, is final, and I regret, therefore, that the case cannot be re-opened.