§ Mr. John Pageasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the estimated annual cost over an appropriate number of years of paying the standard rate death grant of £30 in all cases and abolishing the reduced figure of £15.
§ Mr. DeanThe estimated additional annual cost of paying standard rate death64W grant for men over age 55 and women over age 50 on 5th July, 1948, would be £5½ million reducing gradually to nil by about the end of the century.