§ Mr. REMERasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what would be the cost if the non-contributory pensions at 70 were granted a means limit of £100 instead of the present limit?
§ Mr. W. S. MORRISONIn the absence of data bearing directly on this question, any estimate of cost must necessarily be speculative, but with this reservation I am advised that the additional cost of increasing to £100 the means limit (including earnings) governing non-contributory old age pensions at 70 would be between £5 millions and £6 millions a year at the present time and would increase steadily in the future.