§ MR. W. T. WILSON (Lancashire, Westhoughton)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether a person who has been exempted from paying his rates by the local authority will be considered as having been in receipt of Poor Law relief; and whether a person under such circumstances would be disqualified from receiving an old-age pension as provided by the Pension Bill.
(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) It has been decided that an excusal from payment of the poor rate on the ground of poverty is not a disqualification for registration as Parliamentary elector by reason of amounting to the receipt of relief. The excusal from payment of rates on the ground of poverty would not disqualify the person excused for the receipt of an old-age pension.