Miss Wardasked the Minister of National Insurance whether he will enable widows drawing attributable pensions to qualify for National Insurance pensions on the same basis as Service widows drawing non-attributable pensions.
§ Mr. TurtonNo. The distinction referred to follows the recommendations of the National Insurance Advisory Committee regarding the non-duplication of payments from public funds and the reasons for it are explained in the Committee's Report House of Commons Paper, 1948, No. 36—a copy of which I am sending to my hon. Friend.