HC Deb 22 February 1940 vol 357 cc1508-9
14. Dr. Little

asked the Minister of Pensions whether, owing to the increased cost of living and their inability to augment the amount received by their own efforts, he will consider the urgency of increasing the pensions of disabled ex-service men, thus freeing these men from care as to their means of livelihood?

The Minister of Pensions (Sir Walter Womersley)

Sufficient experience has not, in my judgment, as yet been gained of the course of prices to justify the Government in considering a general increase of the rates of pension.