HC Deb 19 December 1935 vol 307 c1949
91. Mr. MITCHESON

asked the Minister of Health the number of persons in receipt of contributory and non-contributory old age pensions, respectively?

Sir K. WOOD

The number of persons in receipt of old age pensions under or by virtue of the Contributory Pensions Acts on 30th September, 1935, was 1,741,840, and the number under the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1924, independently of the Contributory Pensions Acts, was 688,690.