Mr Charles White: I was only showing how important it is, which other speakers have shown without being interrupted—[HON. MEMBERS: "Order !"]—how important it is that every elector should know in the best possible manner what happens in this House. Pensioners, trade unionists, taxpayers generally, should know that exactly, from the only authentic source they can get it, at as cheap a rate as possible, and...
Mr Charles White: 1. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will make inquiries into the case of ex-driver Harold G. Wether, No. T/3,025,671, of Slaithwaite, late of Matlock, to whom a considerable amount is due in respect of pension for his wife and child; whether he is aware that this man was married on 11th November, 1916, the day after being discharged from hospital and classed as Al: that, prior to his...
Mr Charles White: Is it not the fact that it was before the actual removal from duty that this second disability was incurred?
Mr Charles White: Will the right hon. Gentleman inquire into that point: that is my information?
Mr Charles White: 2. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will reconsider the case of ex-Private James William Bacon, No. T/419190, Army Service Corps, who was discharged from the Army with disability attributable to military service, which has now been altered to aggravated by military service; whether he is aware that, prior to Bacon joining the Army, he was a strong healthy man; that he is now totally...
Mr Charles White: 30. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that he has stated that His Majesty's Government would be prepared to permit Germany to enter into the League of Nations, any official notification of this decision has been made, or will be made, to the German Government?
Mr Charles White: 21. asked the Minister of Labour whether he will inquire into the circumstances of the case of J. G. S. Holbrook, of I, Richmond Terrace, Pear Tree Road, Derby, who was employed at the Rolls-Royce Works, Derby, until November, 1920, when he was sent to work as a labourer by the Exchange constructing drains, etc., from February to May, 1921, his card being stamped by himself during that...
Mr Charles White: 16. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he would be prepared to bring up to date the memorandum drawn up by the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade on German currency; and, if so, can he state when copies will be available?
Mr Charles White: 66. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the wages of ex-service men employed as temporary clerks in the Inland Revenue Tax Departments in Derbyshire have had, or are about to have, their wages reduced, as follows: where the pay is 65. a week by 9s. per week, and where the pay is 56s. a week by 7s. 6d. per week; and whether, seeing that the duties of these...
Mr Charles White: Does the hon. Baronet really consider that this wage is sufficient to keep these men, who have sacrificed so much for their country?
Mr Charles White: 77. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that Captain E. S. Robinson, of Urney, Killiney, county Dublin, was invalided out of the Army in July, 1919 suffering from Meniere's disease, which was entirely due to military service, and has rendered him incapable of any employment since that time; that, notwithstanding this, his disability is now found to have been aggravated only by...
Mr Charles White: What is the particular independent tribunal to which the officer will have an opportunity of going?
Mr Charles White: Which means, in other words, a further Medical Board?
Mr Charles White: 1. asked the Minister of Pensions whether any decision has been arrived at in the case of Shoeing-smith Jack Clayton Walters No. R/8828, Royal Army Service Corps, who died at a military hospital at Kantara, Egypt, on 22nd November, 1921, previous to which he had several attacks of dysentery and enteric fever, in addition to being kicked by a horse when stationed at Romsey, Hants; and whether,...
Mr Charles White: 2. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will reconsider the case of Sister Kathleen W. Danby, Army Nursing Service, now living at Minster Lovell, Witney, Oxon, who joined up in 1915 for foreign service in the East, and was eventually invalided out of the Service with a pension of £45 a year; whether he is aware that, though Sister Danby is still totally incapable of taking up any...
Mr Charles White: 6. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that, in the cases of thousands of ex-service men who were discharged from the Service with disability caused entirely by War service, they are now informed by the Ministry of Pensions that their disability was only aggravated by War service, though in many cases their disability has increased; and whether, in order to remedy the...
Mr Charles White: Is it not a fact that there are hundreds of these men at the present moment being reduced from the "attributable "to the "aggravated," their pensions ultimately being stopped altogether, without any adequate reason?
Mr Charles White: I know cases.
Mr Charles White: The right hon. Gentleman shall have some.
Mr Charles White: 51. asked the Prime Minister whether it is the intention of the Government to pass into law this Session of Parliament a Minimum Wage and Maximum Hours Bill?
