75. Colonel Dowerasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in view of the decreased number of cases in which war damage repairs are to be carried out, whether speedier facilities will be granted by the War Damage Commission, for 105W agreeing such work with claimants before the repairs are carried out, including cases where the war damage is less than £250.
§ Mr. Glenvil HallThe War Damage Commission tell me that they are still making about 8,000 payments a week on claims for work already carried out, and they are bound to give first attention to these cases. In addition, applications for their advance approval of work still to be done are now being dealt with at the rate of 2,000 a week—a higher figure than ever before—and they regret that they cannot at present extend the system of advance approval to works estimated to cost less than £250.