§ Mr. WHITEasked the Secretary of State for War what progress has been made in the mechanisation of office methods during the past 12 months in War Office and the outstations?
§ Sir V. WARRENDERNo additional mechanical methods have been introduced in the War Office during the past 12 months. As regards outstations, they have now been, or are in course of being, established in all central ordnance depots for store-accounting and contract payments, while trials are being carried out mechanical wage-accounting and costing in ordnance workshops and on
— Numbers. Cost. £ (1) Aggregate of pensions, allowances and gratuities awarded up to the 31st March, 1936, since the beginning of the War, not including grants from the Special Grants Committee. 2,419,000 1,075,800,000 (2) Pensioners currently in receipt of pension, and cost of pensions for the year: (a) Widows … … … … … … 129,500 11,750,000 (b) Dependants … … … … … … 236,400 5,092,000 (c) Orphan children, i.e., motherless as well as fatherless 600 23,000 (d) Cases of eye affections assessed at 100 per cent. disablement. 1,990 264,000 (3) In-patients during the 12 months, including patients in mental institutions. 15,400 780,000 * The precise number of women in receipt of dependant's pension cannot be given, but approximately two-thirds of adult dependants are women.