§ 70. Captain BOURNEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he can give the estimated variation during the current year in the numbers of contributory and non-contributory pensions, respectively, falling on the Vote for Old Age Pensions owing to successful new claims and deaths and revocations?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)It is estimated that in the course of the current financial year the number of contributory pensions falling on the Vote for Old Age Pensions will have increased by 102,000, and that the number of non-contributory pensions will have decreased by 30,000, giving a net increase in the number of pensions of both classes of 72,000. The estimated increase of 102,000 in the number of contributory pensions is made up of 140,000 new awards, offset by 38,000 cancellations by death or revocation; the estimated decrease of 30,000 in the number of non-contributory 1189 pensions including blind pensions is made up of 110,000 cancellations by death or revocation, offset by 80,000 new awards.