Mr. T. THOMSONasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the total amounts paid in pensions during the year 1922; and the number of pensioners participating in police, teachers, military, and naval service pensions, not including pensions granted on account of war injuries received during the European War?
§ Major BOYD-CARPENTERFull statistics for the year 1922 are not yet available,1646W but the total amount paid in pensions during that year was approximately £20,500,000, excluding Great War Injury Pensions, Old Age Pensions and Civil Service Pensions. The number of pensioners participating in police, teachers, Army, Air and Naval Service Pensions, exclusive of Great War Injury Pensions, was approximately 245,000. The amount paid for Old Age Pensions in 1922 was £22,125,841, excluding Ireland. As regards Civil Service Pensions, I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave on the 20th March last to a question asked by the hon. Member for Morpeth (Mr. Cairns).