§ 108. Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOODasked the Minister of Pensions whether he can state the number and average amount of pecuniary-need pensions paid during 1922 to poor dependants of deceased ex-service men, the number of pensions which were reduced, and the average amount of the reduction effected during the same period?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of PENSIONS (Captain Craig)There are at present in payment about 29,000 need pensions to parents at an average weekly rate of 12.s. 2d. Of these, some 19,000 cases came under review in the course of the year 1922, with the result that some were increased in amount and others decreased. The average pension drawn in these cases was about 12s. 5d. a week