§ 23. Mr. BUCHANANasked the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he can state the number of women who applied for a widow's pension and had been refused on the grounds that the late husband had reached the age of 70 before The 4th January, 1928; and the number of women who applied for and were refused an old age pension on the ground that the husband had reached the age of 70 on the above date?
§ Sir J. GILMOURAs at 9th November, 1928, widows' pensions under the Contributory Pensions Act had been refused to 783 women in Scotland, whose husbands died after 4th January, 1926, but had reached the age of 70 before that date, on the ground that at the time of the husband's death there was no child under the age of 14. As at the same date the number of women in Scotland who had been refused contributory old age pensions for the reason that their husbands on whose insurance their claims were based, were over 70 on 2nd January, 1928, was 2,911.