§ Mr. PARKINSONasked the Minister of Pensions if he will have inquiries made into the case of R. Coote, No. 10/4,315, Lancashire Fusiliers, of 3, Higham Street, Wigan, who was given a final Meekly allowance for 35 weeks on 6th, June, 1922, arid appealed to the Pensions Appeal Tribunal, who set aside the final award and allowed the appeal on 4th December, 1922; that he has recently been before a medical board, who stated that there are no grounds for further award of pension, but that he will be, examined by a special medical board shortly before 1st February, 1924; and whether, when the Pensions Appeal Tribunal allows an appeal, the pensioner is entitled to a continuance of his pension, with retrospective payments, from the termination of his final weekly allowance?
§ Major TRYON:The decision of the Assessment Appeal Tribunal was merely that the ease was not considered suitable for a. final award at the time, apart altogether from the extent of any existing disablement, a question on which the tri- 735W bunal expressed no opinion. The medical board, including a specialist on tropical diseases, which examined the man after that decision found no disablement, and there is therefore no ground for the grant of further compensation. The man will be examined again early next year to ascertain his condition, but if, in the meantime, he considers that his condition has grown worse, it is open to him to have his case reconsidered on that ground by applying to the local area office.