HC Deb 23 June 1943 vol 390 cc1175-6W
Colonel Ropner

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that farmers who have suffered damage to their property as a result of bombs jettisoned by the Royal Air Force are unable to ascertain the Department with which their claims for compensation should be lodged; and which Department is concerned with claims arising out of incidents of this nature?

Sir K. Wood

Damage caused by bombs jettisoned by Royal Air Force aircraft on operational flights is war damage. Notifications of such damage to land and buildings should be made to the War Damage Commission and notifications of damage to goods (including growing crops) and chattels to the claimant's insurance company as agents for the Board of Trade in the same way as for other war damage.