§ 35. Mr. Blenkinsopasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance whether she will take steps to grant an ageing allowance to war pensioners of the 1914–18 war whose current rate of disability is below 40 per cent.
§ Mr. Harold DaviesNo, because to extend the present age allowance in this way would be inconsistent with the purpose of the allowance which was introduced not on medical grounds but on a broad humanitarian basis to make things easier for the older pensioner who had had to bear the burden of a relatively severe disablement for a long time.