§ LORD R. CECIL (Marylebone, E.)I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has issued, or intends 72 to issue, instructions to the pension officers directing them not to take into consideration in their Reports the fact that an applicant for a pension, otherwise qualified, has passed a short period in a workhouse infirmary; and, if not, will he undertake to issue instructions to that effect.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEI have not issued, and do not intend to issue instructions of the kind referred to by the noble Lord.
§ LORD R. CECILMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman the reasons which have led him to arrive at that conclusion?
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEI should hardly like to enter into them without notice, for the simple reason that every answer I have to give on a question of this sort may have the effect of embarrassing the decisions as they arise.