§ Mr. PATRICK MEEHANasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in computing the value of a small holding to a claimant for an old age pension in Ireland, allowance may be made for the maintenance of a child necessarily employed on that holding; whether instructions have been issued to pension officers in England that such allowance should be made; and whether instructions to the contrary have been issued to pension officers in Ireland?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEWhere a net estimate of income is made on the basis of the rent payable no allowance is made, but where the gross profits of farms are computed from information obtained as to crops, slock, etc.. an allowance is made. No instructions in a contrary sense have been given in England.