Lieut.-Colonel Colin Mitchellasked the Minister of State for Defence whether he will now consider removing the cut-off date of 1st September, 1950, from the Forces Family Pensions Scheme to entitle those elderly Service widows who still survive to a Service widow's pension.
§ Mr. KirkNo, for the reasons which I fully explained to the House on 23rd July, 1970.—[Vol. 804, c. 1016–21.]