§ SIR BERKELEY SHEFFIELDI beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state what is the revised estimate of the increased cost of old-age pensions consequent upon the alteration, made during the Committee stage, of the sums payable in respect of two or more persons living together.
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Mr. LLOYD-GEOKGE,) Carnarvon BoroughsThe deletion of the provision reducing the amount of the pension in the case of two or more persons living together in the same house is estimated to increase the cost of the scheme, as compared with the original estimate, by £342,000.