51. Miss LEEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the cost of providing a pension of 30s. per week for all mine-workers at 60 years of age?
§ Mr. P. SNOWDENThe additional cost of providing a total pension of 30s. a week for coalminers of 60 years of age and upwards, effectively connected with the industry when granted the pension, may be roughly estimated at £5,000,000 a year rising to £10,000,000 a year. For a variety of reasons it would be impossible to confine a scheme of the nature suggested either to one depressed industry or to a group of depressed industries. The figures I have given, therefore, are but an imperfect reflection of the cost involved.