§ Mr. NichollsTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what he estimates would be the cost to the Exchequer if the widow of a service man, whom she married after he had left the service, was paid a pension relating to his years of service for marriages before 1978. [14395]
§ Mr. SoamesMy Department has no record of the number of marriages which were contracted before 1978 by former service men after their retirement, and it is not possible, therefore, to provide an estimate of the cost of awarding pensions to their widows in such cases.