Deceased Officers' Estates.
Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force.
Sir Louis Smith (Sheffield, Hallam)
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether he is aware that, in the case of an officer killed while flying on duty, the widow does not immediately receive even a proportion of the salary actually earned by her husband before his death, since the whole sum is withheld to ascertain any contingent liabilities; and whether, in view of the frequent embarrassment thus caused to the bereaved family, he can institute some more generous system of financial treatment?