Captain BENNasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the hardship caused by the Police Pensions Act, 1921, to the widows of constables retired on pension prior to 1st April, 1918; whether his attention has been called to the conditions imposed by the Police Pensions Increase Act, 1920, which in many cases deprives necessitous old pensioners of any increase; whether he is aware that paragraph 184, Part II, of the Desborough Committee Report recommends the redress of these grievances; and whether he is prepared to take any action?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANI would refer to the reply which I gave on the 5th instant to a question on this subject by the hon. and gallant Member for the Central Division of Kingston-upon-Hull (Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy).