Civil Servant (Widow's Pension)

HC Deb 01 February 1968 vol 757 cc377-8W

53. Mr. Onslow

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer when last a widow of a civil servant who has remarried and again been bereaved, was refused a restoration of her widow's pension, and for what reason.

Mr. Diamond

December, 1967. Her circumstances did not justify the exercise of the discretion vested in the Treasury to re-grant the pension.