§ Mr. C. Brownasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that in some areas to which children have been evacuated and billeted on old age pensioners, the Assistance Board, in dealing with applications from such pensioners for supplementary pensions, assesses the houehold income, having regard to the sums paid for the evacuees to the detriment of the old age pensioners; and will he see that the Assistance Board issues an instruction that such income should be disregarded?
§ Miss HorsbrughThe board inform me that their normal practice is to make no reduction in an assessment by reason of a payment of this kind. If the hon. Member knows of any case in which such a payment has been taken into account the board would be glad to have particulars.