HC Deb 24 October 1973 vol 861 cc536-7W
Mr. Meacher

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will seek to obtain and publish information on annual earnings ceiling for the application of the earnings rule to retirement pensioners in each of the EEC countries at the present time.

Mr. Dean

Only Belgium, Italy and the Irish Republic apply an earnings condition to the receipt of their retirement pensions. No pension is payable under the Irish Republic scheme if the beneficiary engages in remunerative insurable employment between the ages of 65 and 70. Details of the conditions applied under the Belgian and Italian schemes are available in the Library of the House.