§ MR. C. E. PRICE (Edinburgh, Central)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether instructions have been issued to pension officers to search free of cost the registers of the Established Church of Scotland, whether preserved locally or in the Register House in Edinburgh; and whether he will issue similar instructions to such officers to search the records belonging to dissenting churches, so that preferential treatment will not be give to any person on account of their creed.
§ (Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) Arrangements have been made under which specially appointed Inland Revenue officers are allowed to search, free of charge, the registers kept at the Register Office, Edinburgh, for evidence of age of applicants for old-age pensions on the request of pension officers. I have no power to require access to registers kept locally.