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Lieut.-Colonel Clifton-Brown
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power if steps can be taken to give an extra issue of coal to repatriated Far East prisoners of war during the winter months.
Mr. Shinwell
Local Fuel Overseers are authorised to grant any additional supplies which may be needed in cases of sickness vouched for by medical certificates, but I regret that no general allowance to repatriates from the Far East is possible.