§ Captain GARRO-JONESasked the Minister of Pensions whether, when pensioners at the Ministry of Pensions hospitals demand and are given their discharge, it is still the practice of the Ministry to forfeit the accumulated balance of their treatment allowances; whether he will state the total sum which has been withheld from patients in this way; and what is the authority for this practice?
§ Major TRYONThe conditions subject to which allowances during treatment shall be payable are under the terms of the Warrant prescribed by the Minister. One of the conditions subject to which the balance of any personal allowance to the man (apart from the allowances currently payable to his dependants) is payable, is that he completes the course of treatment prescribed for him. In a case594W where, against the advice of the medical officer, he leaves the hospital prematurely, the. personal allowance due to him is consequently subject to forfeiture. The information asked for in the second part of the question is not available.