§ Sir A. Wilsonasked the Minister of Pensions whether he can give an assurance that pensions and allowances to dependants of officers and men who die as prisoners of war will not be withheld or suspended because the medical advisers are physically unable to certify the cause of death; and that the term "service in this war" includes moral and physical privations necessarily attendant upon captivity in alien hands?
§ Sir W. WomersleyI do not anticipate that difficulty will be experienced in reaching decisions on the information we may expect to receive as to the circumstances of a war prisoner's death. As regards the second point, the effects of hardships and privations experienced as a prisoner of war are always taken into account.