§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will publish details of the deductions made from statutory retirement pensions when the recipient is undergoing in-patient National Health Service treatment in a National Health Service hospital, the annual total of such deductions and details of similar deductions where the patient is undergoing private treatment in a National Health Service or private hospital.
§ Mr. MeacherThe provisions whereby national insurance and industrial injuries benefits are reduced when a beneficiary is in hospital for more than eight weeks are set out in the Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regualtions 1975 (Statutory Instrument 1975/555) and in leaflet NI9 issued by the Department. No reduction is made in cases in which a beneficiary is paying the entire cost of his hospital maintenance.
Total Induced for medical and other legal indications Spontaneous Induced for other reasons Others and not specified 1969 … 35 10 8 15 2 1970 … 32 10 7 11 4 1971 … 27 12 4 6 5 1972 … 26 10 2 7 7 1973 … 12 4 2 4 2 1974* … 11 6 — 2 3 * Provisional