§ 52. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance if he will tabulate the amount and dates of the increases granted during the last 10 years in the basis of war disablement pensions to limbless ex-Service men, indicating with figures the relation of these increases to the present cost of living, with particular reference to costs in Scotland.
§ Lieut.-Commander MaydonI assume the hon. and learned Member is referring to the rates of the basic disablement pensions for limbless ex-private soldiers or equivalent ranks. The scheduled assessments for the loss of one or more limbs range from 40 to 100 per cent. and the table below shows the increases made in the rates over the past 10 years and the real value of those rates, on the basis of the Retail Prices Index—which applies to the United Kingdom as a whole—in terms of June, 1964, prices.
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