§ Mr. LUNNasked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that Robert Lockett, late private in the West Yorkshire Regiment, No. 915, and afterwards in 1712W the N.C.L.C. Labour Corps, No. 110,543, was discharged on the 6th March, 1919, through impairment attributable to war service, on a pension of 5s. 6d. per week, which was discontinued after 46 weeks by the appeal tribunal, on the ground that the disability was not attributable to or aggravated by military service; that after trying a light job at the local colliery the man has had to give it up and seek maintenance by the Hunslet Guardians; that the union medical officer finds considerable wasting of muscles of both arms, with deformity of both hands, and impaired use with some weakness of legs, which renders him totally unfit for work, which the man says was not in existence when he joined the Army in January, 1915, but was the result of frostbite in the trenches; and whether, under the circumstances, he can see his way to secure a reconsideration of the case, with a view to the removal of the injustice from which the man is evidently suffering?
§ Major TRYONI regret that I have not yet been able to complete my inquiries into this case, but I will communicate with my hon. Friend in the course of a few days.