§ Mrs. Lena Jegerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what would be the estimated annual cost of allowing all the children of deceased fathers to keep their allowances on the remarriage of their mothers; and what is the cost of allowing this concession wholly to the children of war widows and partially to the children of industrial widows.
§ Mr. DeanThe answer to the first part of the Question is about £500,000 in the first year rising eventually to about £6 million a year. The estimated cost of the children's allowances which are now paid after the remarriage of war and industrial widow pensioners is about £500,000 a year.