§ Sir W. de FRECEasked the Minister of Pensions the number of new pensioners who have been accepted by his Department in the last 12 months, and the number of applications for pensions which have been rejected in the same period?
§ Mr. F. O. ROBERTSDuring the year ended at the 31st March last, approximately 3,500 fresh applications from1616W ex-service officers and men, widows wm dependents, were accepted by the Ministry and 11,000 were rejected.