Mr. Pearsonasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance if he will state the number of persons in Pontypridd in receipt of retirement pensions and those receiving National Assistance under the headings of pensioners, non-contributory pensioners, unemployed, persons under pensionable age incapacitated for work and others.
§ Miss Hornsby-Smith:Statistics as to the numbers of retirement pensioners in particular localities do not exist as the payment of retirement pensions is arranged centrally. Figures about national assistance grants relating only to Pontypridd are also not available, as the office there serves an area covering a number of other urban and rural districts including Caerphilly. The numbers of weekly grants current in the whole of that area on 13 th December last, analysed as asked for, were as follows:
Payable to retirement pensioners 2.997 Payable to non-contributory old age pensioners 149 Payable to persons registered as unemployed 401 Payable to persons under pensionable age incapacitated for work 1,078 Payable to other persons 985 5,610