§ Sir FORTESCUE FLANNERYasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is yet in a position to state when the Report upon old age pensions and the proposed increase in the amount now under consideration of a Departmental Committee will be ready; and if he will call the attention of the Committee to the fact that the pensioners are still suffering privation during the sittings of the Committee and that the Report upon their investigations has therefore become a question of great urgency?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINAs regards the first part of the question I would refer to the answer which I gave on the 3rd instant to the hon. Member for the Elland Division. I am sure that the Committee are anxious to present their Report without any avoidable delay.