§ Mr. HINDLEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he is prepared to consider an alteration of the regulations governing the granting of pensions to blind persons under the Blind Persons Act, 1920, so that residence in a Dominion or Crown Colony may be considered as residence within the United Kingdom for the purposes of Section 1 of the Blind Persons Act, 1920, provided that the blind applicant is a British-born subject and is now permanently resident in the United Kingdom?
Mr. GRAHAMExcept as regards age, the grant of pensions to blind persons under Section 1 of the Blind Persons Act, 1920, is governed by the provisions of the Old Age Pensions Acts; and I would refer the hon. Member to the reply given on the 3rd July to the hon. Member for North Hammersmith (Mr. Gardner) by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the question of amendment of the details of the present scheme of old age pensions.