§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the Secretary of State for War the total number of Army pre-War pensioners on the rolls to-day and the number receiving the benefits of the Pensions Increase Acts, 1920 to 1924, and comparative figures when the Pensions Increase Acts, 1920 to 1924, came into force?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSOf approximately 35,000 pre-War soldier pensioners, some 11,300 are drawing increases under the Pensions Increase Warrants of 1920 and 1924. The corresponding figures in 1924 (after the introduction of the Increase Warrant of 1924) were 44,000 and 12,800 respectively, and in 1920, 55,000 and 14,000 respectively. The majority of the men who are not in receipt of increases under the Pensions Increase Warrants have had their pensions re-assessed on the more favourable post-War scales because of further service rendered in the Great War.