§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, seeing that it is not the practice of the Admiralty to consider a disability attributable to service when it is due to ordinary conditions of service, and seeing that the ordinary conditions of service are very different from those which obtain in civilian occupations, he can see his way when a man is invalided from a disability which is due to conditons of service to grant him an appeal, where he can state his case before an independent tribunal who can gauge whether the conditions are more or less severe than those which would have obtained in civilian life?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANThe Naval medical authorities are considered fully competent to advise the Board of Admiralty as to the conditions of an invalided rating's service. The question of setting up an independent appeal tribunal other than the Board has been fully considered and I have nothing to add to my reply of the 25th October last (OFFICIAL REPORT, column 568) in which I referred the hon. and gallant Member to the reply which I gave to the hon. and gallant Member for North Portsmouth (Sir B. Falle) on the 18th May (OFFICIAL REPORT, columns 123–4).