HC Deb 17 December 1948 vol 459 cc224-5W
Mr. Low

asked the Minister of Pensions how many disabled ex-Service men of the 1939–45 war have since been certified as insane; and of these men how many are at present in mental hospitals.

Mr. Marquand

My Department has no statistical record of ex-Service men certified as persons of unsound mind. Four thousand. eight hundred and seventy-five pensions have been awarded by my Department for mental disease and on 30th September, 1948, 1,369 of these pensioners were under treatment in mental hospitals.