Lady Saltounasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether records and accounts of the pay of officer prisoners of war in the Second World War were kept, and if they were, whether they have been destroyed and, if so, when.
§ The Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Viscount Trenchard)Records and accounts of the pay of officer prisoners of war in the Second World War were kept by the service departments and paying agents in the same way as for other service personnel. Some of the Admiralty pay ledgers have survived, but so far as is known all Army and RAF pay records have long since been destroyed, in accordance with the common practice of destroying pay records after a reasonable time. The dates of destruction are not known.
House adjourned at eight minutes past ten o'clock.