§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Minister of Fuel and Power whether he will reconsider the case of a schoolmaster at a high school, whose name and details of whom have been supplied to him, whose right leg is paralysed and whose allowance of petrol has been reduced from two gallons per month to one gallon for three months; and whether, as his need has not diminished, the former allowance can be restored?
Major Lloyd GeorgeI find that the total allowance to the gentleman named by my hon. Friend is 22 gallons for the current three-month period, as it was for the previous period. Of this amount the applicant is now authorised to use in three months, only one gallon for domestic purposes; for the preceding three months he was granted permission to use four gallons. The reduction is due to the disallowance of claims for certain purposes which cannot be regarded as justifying the expenditure of petrol.