§ Mr. PORRITTasked the Minister of Pensions how many pensioners have been removed from the pensions list owing to their having failed to apply for their pension for four successive quarters; and whether his Department, in the interests of the wives concerned, take any steps to try and trace such men?
§ Mr. R. S. HUDSONI regret that I have no record of the number of cases referred to in the first part of the question. With regard to the second part of the question, every pensioner who has failed to complete a Life Certificate, which is statutorily necessary for the payment of pension, is sent no less than three reminders by the Ministry. I have neither power nor title to force men to renew their relations as pensioners with my Department if for any reason they do not desire their whereabouts to be known.