§ Mr. Cordleasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many women in the Bournemouth and Christ-church area are now receiving the new sliding-scale pension for women widowed between the ages of 40 and 50 years.
§ Mr. DeanI regret that the information is not available on a local basis.18W The estimate which I gave in my reply to my hon. Friend on 3rd August, 1971, was made possible only because local records of claims were kept for an initial period of three months.—[Vol. 822, c. 251.]