§ Mr. P. OLIVERasked the Minister of Pensions whether, in view of the fact that His Majesty's Government has approved of the principle of pensions being granted to widows with dependent children, he is prepared to advise an immediate amendment of the definition of the term widow in the Royal Warrant of 1919, so that all widows of service pensioners with dependent children may become eligible for pensions, whether their marriage took place before or after the end of the War or before or after the discharge of the pensioner?
Mr. ROBERTSI could not agree to this proposal. The responsibility of my Department in respect of death as resulting from war service has been consistently defined by the Royal Pension Warrants as limited to the man's family obligations as existing at the date of the contraction on service of the fatal disability.