§ Sir W. de FRECEasked the Minister of Health how many applications under the new Pensions Act have been made by widows whose husbands were small shopkeepers, blacksmiths, etc.; how many such husbands were at one time insured under National Health Insurance or in insurable employment if death occurred before 1912; and how many were refused on the ground that the husbands were not in insurable employment within three years of their death?
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§ Miss LAWRENCEThe information asked for is not available, and could only be obtained by a special scrutiny of every application for a widow's pension made under the Contributory Pensions Act, 1929.