HC Deb 21 July 1911 vol 28 c1433W
Mr. VINCENT KENNEDY

asked the Secretary to the Treasury if he will state why the pension payable to Mark Tummin, No. 1851, namely, 5s., has been reduced to 1s. a week by the Local Government Board; and will he give the basis on which this old age pensioner's means were calculated?

Mr. BIRRELL

The Local Government Board reduced Tummin's pension to 1s. a week on the ground that his means exceeded £28 17s. 6d., but did not exceed £31 10s. On his holding of nine acres there are two cows, two calves, an ass, a sow, and fifty fowl, together with crops of potatoes, oats, and hay.