HC Deb 17 December 1908 vol 198 c2097
MR. STAVELEY-HILL (Staffordshire, Kingswinford)

To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can state the number and percentage of applications received in Ireland for old-age pensions from persons occupying land, distinguishing between the cases of the occupying tenants and occupying owners.

SIR CLEMENT HILL

To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer how many persons owning or occupying holdings of two acres or more have applied for and qualified for old-age pensions.

(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) I may perhaps be allowed to take these two Questions together. I am not in possession of the information for which the hon. Members ask; and, in view of the pressure of the old-age pensions work, I do not feel justified in requiring the pension officers to obtain it at the present time.