§ Mr. MIDDLETONasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any decision has yet been reached on the question of payment of arrears of war bonus claimed by men in various Departments of the Civil Service who served with the forces during the War, under the recent judgment of the House of Lords in Sutton v. Rex; whether he is aware that there are a large number of Post Office servants who served under precisely similar conditions as the claimant in the case, namely, full civil pay and military pay and allowances; and whether he is now in a position to admit the liability of the Crown for arrears of war bonus to these men, without prejudice to the claim of any other civil servants whose terms of enlistment may involve further consideration under the House of Lords judgment?
§ Major BOYD-CARPENTERI beg to refer the hon. Member to the answer given yesterday on this subject to the hon. Member for Barrow-in-Furness (Mr. D. Somerville).