§ Major LEIGHTONasked the Minister of Pensions whether he can inform the House of the number of grants that have been made under special sanction to officers and men who have unsuccessfully appealed to the independent tribunal established by the 1919 War Pensions Act, but who have subsequently been able to produce additional material evidence of such a nature as to warrant the assumption that the court would have allowed the case bad such information been in front of it at the time of the appeal?
Mr. ROBERTSThe number of cases in which grants have been made in the circumstances referred to since the Act of 1919 is about 217