§ Mr. SITCHasked the Minister of Pensions, seeing that the notes on war pensions issued for the guidance of war pensions committees contain combined text of Royal Warrants, Orders in Council, and Orders by His Majesty, Commutation Regulations, and Final Awards Regulations, why the Regulatitions of the Special Grants Committee were not included?
§ Major TRYONA full distribution of the Regulations of the Special Grants Committee was made to all members of war pensions committees and to voluntary workers. A supply of the Regulations, which were placed on sale, was also sent to the Vote Office for the use of hon. Members.
§ Mr. SITCHasked the Minister of Pensions what modifications of the Regulations, Part I, and the Regulations, Part II, of the special grants committee have been made in the past two years; whether the current Regulations are on sale at His Majesty's Stationery Office; arid, if not, whether he will arrange for an early issue of the Regulations, Part I and Part II, as amended?
§ Major TRYONThe current Regulations of the Special Grants Committee for Officers, Other Ranks and Nurses were issued in 1923, and the only subsequent change in those Regulations was the addition of a provision for grants in exceptional cases of serious and prolonged ill-health of widows and children of noncommissioned officers and men. Copies of the Regulations are on sale at His Majesty's Stationery Office. The Special Grants Committee's Regulations, Part II, dealt with separation and other allowances and grants to the wives and dependants of men serving in the War, and have long since ceased to be operative.