§ Mr. John Evansasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) how many recorded cases there are of British women who married Polish ex-Service men, who took up residence in the United Kingdom at the end of the 1939–45 war, who subsequently had their widow's pension removed from them on the ground that the Polish ex-Service man had had a legal wife living in Poland;
(2) what was the total amount of money paid, in 1977 and each preceding year, by the United Kingdom Government as widows' pensions to women resident in Poland who were widows of Polish ex-Service men, after payments had been withdrawn from British women to whom such pensions had previously been paid.
§ Mr. DeakinsThis information is not readily available from existing records and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.