HC Deb 08 February 1938 vol 331 cc858-9W
Mr. Sorensen

asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will state the total number of re-applications for pension or for increase of pension he received during 1937; and the number of pensions that ceased otherwise than through the decease of the pensioner?

Mr. Ramsbotham

The records of my Department do not enable me to give the total number of re-applications received, but the cases in which pensions were increased during the year in question numbered 2,008. I may say that in a majority of the cases, the increases were made by the Ministry of its own motion, and not as the result of application or re-application. The number of pensions that ceased otherwise than through the decease of the pensioner was 1,177, and were due mainly to remarriage or omission to draw the pension.