HC Deb 05 February 1929 vol 224 c1595W
Mr. POTTS

asked the Minister of Pensions whether he can see his way clear to have reviewed the pension of 8s. per week, plus 2s., paid to the wife of Ernest Gillett, late sapper, residing at 10, St. George's Road, Barnsley; whether he is aware that Gillett enlisted for the Great War, passed A 1, was drafted to Ireland, where he sustained injury on 24th June, 1916; that he was granted a pension, reviewed by medical boards, as follows: Sheffield, 13s. 9d., Lancaster, 19s. 3d., again reviewed and raised to 28s., Liverpool, reduced to 25s. and 15s., followed by final award of 10s. for himself and wife; and that he is totally disabled, cannot walk and has to be wheeled in a bath chair, his wife continuously in attendance, and has to be found shelter by his father and mother and principally maintained by them? Lieut.-Colonel STANLEY: This case has already been very carefully considered. My right hon. Friend is, however, advised that there is no ground for regarding the pension now in payment to Mr. Gillett as inadequate to the disablement caused by his accepted disability as arising from his War service, namely, chronic arthritis of the right knee. As the hon. Member has already been informed, the major part of Mr. Gillett's present disablement arises from another condition.