Former MP for Paddington South
If this hospital be closed, will not disabled men suffer?
Will this change require a new Royal Warrant?
I feel bound to support the Vote, because I was a member of the Select Committee which recommended that these tribunals should be set up, and we made that recommendation because we were very strongly urged to do so by the representatives of the ex-service men. I also feel bound to sup- port it because I was one of those who pressed very strongly that the tribunals should be increased, because...
I devoted five years of my life to getting the best treatment I could for these men. It is not likely that I should turn against them now, and that is not a fair thing to say. These tribunals have done their work fairly. I do not say they have never made mistakes, but does not the highest tribunal in the land make mistakes? On the whole, justice has been done. I feel bound to speak up for the...
10. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that the present practice of deducting the whole amount of pension issuable in respect of a child when it is obliged to enter a rate-aided institution bears very hardly on the mother where there is more than one child; and whether he will adopt the procedure which prevailed, with regard to separation allowances, during the War and pool...
28. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government propose to give effect to the recommendations of the Select Committee on War Pensions contained in their recent Report?
I think the all-important question before us is to get the necessary powers for enabling the unemployed to be employed. I have been asked by the London County Council to raise what I think is the very practical point that the powers contained in this Bill are not sufficiently expeditious, and that unless more expeditious powers can be provided it will not be possible for the London County...
4. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that the Ministry in a recent letter informed the London War Pensions Committee that, as regards the payment of treatment allowances, the question to be considered is whether a man is prevented from following his occupation in consequence of the amount of time taken up in obtaining the treatment ordered by the Ministry, and that if he is...
