OLD AGE PENSIONS.

HC Deb 11 March 1919 vol 113 cc1101-2W

Mr. CLYNES

asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Manchester Corporation and other local municipal authorities will be afforded an opportunity of submitting evidence to the body to be set up to inquire into the question of old age pensions; and when the body referred to will be established?

Mr. BALDWIN

It will be for the Committee to decide what evidence it is desirable for them to hear.

Major BARKER

asked the President of the Local Government Board whether, in calculating the available means of old age pensioners, he will exclude there from any sum they get by way of a pension as being a surviving dependant of a relative who has been killed in the War

Mr. BALDWIN

I would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the answer I gave yesterday to the hon. Member for Mansfield.