§ Colonel ENGLANDasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of persons receiving the old age pension under the Acts of 1908 to 1924 to whom the means restriction applies, and the value of such payments, in the last weeks of September?
Mr. SAMUELThe number of persons receiving the old age pension under the Acts of 1908 to 1924, to whom the means restriction applies, on the last Friday in September was 989,538. The approximate annual value of these pensions was £25,438,000.