§ Sir R. ASKEasked the Minister of Health the number of pensioners of whose death notice has reached the Ministry during the year ended 31st March, 1930, giving the numbers, respectively, of widows, children, orphans and aged persons?
§ Mr. GREENWOODThe number of beneficiaries under the Contributory Pensions Acts whose deaths have been noted on information furnished to the Ministry by the General Register Office during the year in question is as follows:
Widows 2,727 Children for whom allowances or orphans' pensions were in payment 622* Old age pensioners 31,823 Total 35,172 * This figure cannot be divided between the two groups. In addition, notice of death was received from other sources in a small number of cases, but the exact number of these notifications is not known. These figures refer to England and Wales.