§ 26. Mr. Odeyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, when considering the whole question of pensions, he will give special consideration to the position of police widows who, in many cases, are in receipt of a lower range of pension than is allowed by the 1948 pension regulations; and whether he will now consider applying a uniform scale to all police widows' pensions.
§ Major Lloyd-GeorgeThe position of police widows whose husbands died before 5th July, 1948, has already been examined carefully and sympathetically on a number of occasions; and it would not be right of me to hold out any prospect that in any further review it will be possible to treat them more favourably than others whose husbands died before the introduction of the National Insurance Scheme.