§ 52. Mr. Turtonasked the Minister of Health whether he will consider the 1335 amendment of the Widows', Orphans', and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1926, so as to ensure that any person who becomes an inmate of any workhouse or other Poor Law institution shall not be disqualified from receiving any sum accruing during the period that he is such an inmate on account of any pension which would otherwise be payable to him; and, if before the beginning of that period any sum has accrued on account of a pension payable to him, that such shall be paid to him notwithstanding his admission to a workhouse or Poor Law institution?
§ Sir K. WoodI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall (Mr. Leckie) on 25th February last. I may, however, point out that any sum which has accrued on account of pension in respect of any person who afterwards becomes an inmate of an institution is payable when the person in question leaves the institution.