HC Deb 11 May 1931 vol 252 cc829-30W
Mr. HORE-BELISHA

asked the Minister of Pensions (1) the number of men in receipt of disability pensions in respect of tuberculosis during the years 1928, 1929 and. 1930 respectively, who have had their pensions increased as a result of the findings of the medical board that their condition had deteriorated, and the number of men during the same period who have had their pensions decreased as a result of the findings of the medical board that their condition had improved;

(2) the number of reviews during the years 1928, 1929 and 1930 respectively, by medical boards of cases where disability pensions have been granted in respect of tuberculosis; and the number of cases during the same period where the disability pension has been withdrawn on the ground that the effects of tuberculosis have passed away or by reason of the pensioners having died as the result of the disease?

Mr. F. O. ROBERTS

The records of the Ministry do not enable me to state precisely the number of disabled officers and men pensioned for tuberculosis whose cases have been reviewed in the years referred to and, consequently, I cannot state the number whose pensions have been increased or decreased. I understand, however, that normally in a majority of the cases the pension either remains the same or is increased, while the number of cases in which the pension has ceased to be drawn on the ground that the effects of war service have passed away is in comparison negligible. The deaths of tuberculosis pensioners reported during each of the three years were, in 1928, 1,450; in 1929, 1,400; and in 1930, 1,050, but the number of these cases in which death was due to the disability cannot be stated.

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