HC Deb 10 April 1963 vol 675 c158W
49. Sir J. Langford-Holt

asked the Secretary of State for War, in view of the increasing concern felt by military pensioners that no alteration is made to their pensions to offset the rise in the cost of living since 1935, whether he will now consider the position.

Mr. Ramsden

Since the war, six pensions increase measures have partly offset the rise in the cost of living for those eligible to benefit from them. I do not think we should be justified in altering the conditions of eligibility