Oral Answers to Questions — Surgical Boots (Deliveries)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 August 1947.

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Photo of Mr Tom Driberg Mr Tom Driberg , Maldon 12:00, 13 August 1947

asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that a disabled ex-Service man, case No. 2/MH/2984, is unable to follow his employment on a seed farm at Kelvedon, Essex, because his surgical boots are completely unserviceable; that renewal of boots was due last December and that this man was remeasured for them at a Ministry of Pension's clinic on 14th January last; that he has for seven months addressed repeated appeals to the Department's regional office at Cambridge, but has still not received his new boots; and if he will expedite the provision of these boots and explain the cause of this long delay.