§ 10. Sir WALTER de FRECEasked the Minister of Pensions the number of cases in which pensions have been refused to the widows of ex-service men; and the number of dependent children thereby affected?
§ Major TRYONThe total number of cases in which claims have been made by widows under the Warrant is approximately 277,000. Of these, not more than about 27,000 have been rejected as inadmissible. I am not, however, in a position to say in what number of cases the widows concerned had any children dependent upon them.