Mr. GRENFELLasked the Minister of Pensions the total number of cases in which the Special Grants Committee has refused to authorise the issue of educational grants to the children of men dead as the result of war service on the ground that had the father lived he would not have provided the education desired; and whether he has any figures available showing the number of these children whose claims were rejected who afterwards received educational grants from the United Services Fund and/or the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust?
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§ Major TRYONThe precise information asked for in the first part of the question is, I understand, not available, but I am informed that during the past 12 months in some 2,500 cases of applications for grants in respect of the children of ex-service men living or deceased, the Special Grants Committee were unable to entertain the application because it was not shown that the children were prevented by the death or disablement of their fathers from receiving the education which was to be provided. The figures asked for in the latter part of the question are not on record.