§ Major COHENasked the Minister of Pensions (1) the number of officers' appeals heard by the Victoria Street Tribunal presided over by Mr. Meysey-Thompson, and the percentage of successful appeals;
(2) the number of officers' appeals heard by the Cecil Chambers Tribunal presided over by Mr. Ratto, and the percentage of successful appeals?
§ Colonel GIBBSI cannot undertake to give the figures asked for. These are judicial tribunals whose duty it is to decide each case that comes before them upon the evidence relevant to the appeal. There is no numerical standard or measure to which they ought to, or can, conform. Such statistics as are asked for tend to render their work more difficult and embarrassing and less judicial, by suggesting that their judgments ought to reach and produce some numerical result.