§ Mr. GROVESasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he will inquire into the circumstances attending the refusal of a full pension to F. Boorer, 82, Leyton Road, Stratford?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAThere is no power to award a pension at the full rate where the yearly means, as calculated under the Old Age Pensions Acts, exceed £26 5s. I understand that the yearly means of the pensioner in question amounted to more than this sum, and that the local pension committee accordingly awarded a pension at the rate of 8s. weekly.