§ Rear-Admiral Morgan Gilesasked the Secretary of State for Defence how many widows of regular officers are receiving widows' ordinary pensions under each of the 10 retired pay codes; and, in each case, how many are over 70 years of age and, of the latter, how many are over 80 years of age.
§ Mr. ReynoldsThe figures are as follows:
Officers' Widows receiving ordinary pensions Code 1919 … … … 4,266 1919 … … … 1,647 (re-assessed for War Service) 1945 … … … 3,042 1950 … … … 992 1956 … … … 800 1960 … … … 209 1962 … … … 162 1964 … … … 131 1966 … … … 84 The total number of widows over 70 years of age is 5,984 and of these the number over 80 years of age is 3,023. These totals cannot be separately attributed to the individual codes without disproportionate effort.