§ Mr. ARTHUR LYNCHasked whether the Government would consider it well at an early date to rescind the Clause which disqualifies old people, otherwise eligible, from receiving old age pensions on the ground of having received poor relief.
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe disqualification in respect of past receipt of poor relief will, in the absence of fresh legislation, expire automatically on 31st December, 1910. The Government are, as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated in his Budget speech, most anxious to get rid of this disqualification at the earliest possible date, but he is not yet in a position to add anything to what he then said upon the subject.