§ Mr. Lewisasked the Minister of Fuel and Power in how many cases his Department has granted petrol allowances at the special rates authorised for hiring to ex-Servicemen disabled in the present war; and in how many of these cases was the applicant not engaged in motor-car hire service before the war.
Major Lloyd GeorgeRecords of hire-car applications are not kept in such a form as enables me to answer my hon. Friend's Question as it stands. As to the first part, if an applicant is eligible under the existing rule he receives an allowance without needing to mention his disablement; and I am therefore unable to judge how many holders of such allowances are ex-Service men disabled in the present war. As to the second part, it has been possible to trace 27 cases in which a hire-car allowance has exceptionally been granted to an ex-Service man disabled in the present war, who was not eligible under the rule as operator of a hire-car immediately before the war; but this figure is certainly short of the total.