Captain FABERasked the President of the Local Government Board if he will state whether, whereas under the Old Age Pensions Act in the case of single pensioners receiving 5s. a week and husband and wife 10s. a week jointly no claim is made upon sons and daughters to repay any portion of these pensions, he can see his way to alter the Poor Law so that in the case of single persons receiving 3s. relief, and husband and wife 6s., no claim may be made upon sons and daughters to repay a portion of the relief granted, thus bringing the law regulating relief into line with the Old Age Pensions Act?
§ Mr. BURNSI am afraid I could not promise to introduce a Bill to amend the law in the direction indicated. I need hardly point out that the conditions attaching to the receipt of an old age pension entirely differentiate assistance in that form from ordinary Poor Law relief.