§ Mr. Bryant Godman Irvineasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why tax on a disability pension becomes payable from the seventieth birthday; and if he will make arrangements for such payments not to be liable for tax.
§ Mr. Robert SheldonI assume that the situation which the hon. Gentleman has in mind is that in which entitlement to the national insurance invalidity benefit ceases when the recipient reaches age 70,346W and the national insurance retirement pension becomes payable instead. I would refer him to my predecessor's reply to the hon. Member for Hertfordshire, South-West (Mr. Dodsworth) on 30th January 1975.—[Vol. 885, c. 248.]