§ Major M'MICKINGasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention had been called to a recent award by the pension committee in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright by which a person with over £750 in the bank was given an old age pension; whether he proposed to amend the law so that such misapplications of public money might be stopped; and whether, in any proposed legislation dealing with this subject, provision would be made that the incomes of applicants for pensions derived from uninvested funds should be calculated at a sum equivalent to the amount of the annuity such uninvested funds would purchase?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEMy right hon. Friend's attention has been called to several cases similar to that mentioned in the question, and the matter is receiving his careful consideration in connection with the Bill for the Amendment of the Old Age Pensions Act which the Government contemplate introducing next Session.