§ 39. Mr. Charles Smithasked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the hardship existing in the case of the 100 per cent. disabled ex-Service man about whom the hon. Member for Colchester wrote to his Department originally on 19th April, the reference number of whose case is P.O. 2609/1948; and what recommendations or proposals his Department are able to make about the settlement of this man, failing the issue of a feedingstuffs ration.
§ Mr. IsaacsI understand that this man is in fact receiving an allocation of feedingstuffs, and there is therefore at present no question of my Department making alternative arrangements for his resettlement. We shall of course do our best to find him other work if he does not continue his smallholding.
24Wsuch a woman would be insurable in her own right; if married, she would have rights arising from her husband's insurance. Where there were children, family allowances would be payable, and in such a case the man with whom she was living could also claim increase of benefit for her and for the first child if he was unemployed or sick.