§ MR. KETTLE (Tyrone, E.)I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can say how many pension officers and how many supervisors have been appointed for Ireland under the Old-Age Pensions Act; and what are the areas assigned to both classes of officers.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEAs regards the first part of the Question, I may perhaps be allowed to refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave on the 9th instant to a Question by the hon. Member for the Ossory Division of Queen's County. I regret that the information asked for in the second part of the Question could not be supplied in detail without a disproportionate expenditure of time and labour; but I may say generally that each pension officer is responsible for the areas of one or more sub-committees as the case may be, and each pension officer appointed to be a supervisor has the supervision of the work of five or six other pension officers.