§ Sir J. PENNEFATHERasked the President of the Board of Trade the number of cases in which the Royal Commission on Compensation for Suffering and Damage by Enemy Action reduced its awards on account of the claimants having already received awards under the War Risks Compensation scheme; and, if so, the total amount of the deductions so made?
Mr. WEBBI regret that it would not be possible to extract the information desired out of the 40,000 claims without a vast amount of labour and expense. In every case where a claimant had derived benefit under the War risks compensation scheme, or schemes for insurance of personal effects, those benefits were taken into account in assessing claims, in accordance with the principles applied by the Royal Commission on Compensation for Suffering and Damage by Enemy Action, as described in their reports.