HC Deb 15 December 1980 vol 996 c35W
Mr. Nicholas Baker

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what would be the cost of abolishing the rules whereby the pensions of retirement pensioners who are in hospital abate after their first eight weeks in hospital at varying rates for a full financial year.

Mr. Prentice

If the rules were abolished, the additional expenditure on retirement pensions would be about £100 million a year.