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Army School-Mistresses (Allowances)

Volume 359: debated on Tuesday 9 April 1940

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33.

asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Queen's Army school-mistresses married to serving soldiers are not allowed to draw the wife's allowance although soldiers wives who are in employment as civilian school-teachers are; and whether he will take steps to end this anomaly by making Army school-mistresses otherwise qualified for the allowance eligible to receive it?