§ Mrs. Chalkerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what proportion of retirement pensioners in receipt of 293W supplementary pensions are also in receipt of the married national insurance pension; and what proportion are in receipt of the single national insurance pension.
§ Mr. DeakinsThe figures are 18 per cent. and 82 per cent., respectively. Within the 18 per cent. arc both those married men who draw the married rate of retirement pension—that is, including an increase for a wife under pension age—and those whose wives are in receipt of a pension of their own.