HC Deb 02 June 1930 vol 239 cc1788-9W
Sir W. de FRECE

asked the Minister of Health how many applications under the new Pensions Act have been made by widows whose husbands were small shopkeepers, blacksmiths, etc.; how many such husbands were at one time insured under National Health Insurance or in insurable employment if death occurred before 1912; and how many were refused on the ground that the husbands were not in insurable employment within three years of their death?

Miss LAWRENCE

The information asked for is not available, and could only be obtained by a special scrutiny of every application for a widow's pension made under the Contributory Pensions Act, 1929.