§ Mr. DUCKWORTHasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware of the hardship to many applicants for the old age pension in connection with the charge for birth certificates; and whether he will arrange that this amount should either be very substantially reduced or remitted altogether?
§ Mr. N. CHAMBERLAINApplicants for old age pensions are not required to obtain and furnish birth certificates, and no hardship is, therefore, imposed upon them by the present charges for such certificates.