§ 3. Mr. Houghtonasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance whether he will introduce legislation to provide an optional pension of 10s. a week without retirement conditions and without payment of contributions, other than for industrial injuries, for persons insured for five years before 5th July, 1948.
§ Mr. HoughtonHas the right hon. Gentleman overlooked the fact that in a pamphlet issued by his party in 1950 a promise was made to do this very thing? Is it now the doctrine of the Conservative Party that the latest catalogue supersedes all previous ones?
§ Mr. PeakeBy all means; and I repeat my surprise that the hon. Gentleman should be lumbering along four years behind the Conservative Party.