§ Mr. Rossasked he Minister of Pensions and National Insurance the number of retirement pensioners in receipt of supplementary assistance at 1st May, 1955, 76W 1st August, 1955, 1st December, 1955, 1st February, 1956, and 1st May, 1956, respectively.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterInformation of the kind asked for is available only from quarterly analyses. The numbers (to the nearest thousand) of regular weekly National Assistance grants in supplementation of retirement pensions at the time of the analysis in March, 1955, and subsequently were:
29th March, 1955 1,005,000 28th June, 1955 895,000 27th September, 1955 884,000 20th December, 1955 888,000 27th March, 1956 899,000 Some of the grants provided for the requirements of a household with more than one pensioner.