Mr. CREECH JONESasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will consider, with a view to removing certain hardships, the introduction of amending legislation to the Old Age Pensions Acts so as to provide for an appreciable increase in the maximum allowance of earned and unearned income of £49 17s. 6d. in the assessment of the amount of pension to be paid to a claimant or pensioner, and to remove, owing to the present cheapness of money, the anomaly in the calculation of the means of the claimants under Section 4 whereby the yearly value of capital value of property is taken as high as 5 per cent. in respect of the first £400 and 10 per cent. in excess of this sum?
§ Mr. W. S. MORRISONI would refer the hon. Member to the answer given on the 14th May to the hon. Members for Leyton, West (Mr. Sorensen) and Sedge-field (Mr. Leslie).