§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many women aged between 60 and 64 years have relinquished all or part of any pension for 1981–82 in order to keep their taxable incomes within the Inland Revenue's assessing tolerance.
§ Mrs. ChalkerI regret that statistics are not available in the form requested. We do however, know that at 7 October 1981 a total of 920 retirement pensioners of both sexes had voluntarily relinquished their pension rights in entirety.