§ Mr. Lomasasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, what notice is taken, in assessing a widow's claim to a war widow's pension, of the cause or attributable causes of death as shown on her husband's death certificate.
§ Mr. Lomasasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, whether the findings of an autopsy override the cause or causes of death shown on a death certificate issued before the autopsy took place in determining whether the widow of a person previously in receipt of a war disability pension is entitled to a war widow's pension.
§ Miss HerbisonThe whole of the relevant evidence is carefully considered, including the causes of death shown on the death certificate and any post-mortem findings. No one kind of evidence automatically overrides all the rest.
§ Mr. Lomasasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, on what grounds an autopsy is ordered by her Department once a death certificate has been issued on a person previously in receipt of a war disability pension.
§ Miss HerbisonI have no power to order a post-mortem examination.