§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how, when deciding whether to make personal social security information held on his Department's records available to the police authorities following a request for such information, he defines more than trivial crime; how often police authorities are refused requests for
First and Second World Wars Northern Ireland post-1973 and Falkland Islands Husband's rank Standard rate pension £ pa Increase for each child £ pa Standard rate pension £pa Private 2,226 586 2,226 Corporal 2,229 586 2,226 Sergeant 2,232 586 2,226 Staff Sergeant 2,234 586 2,226 Warrant Officer II 2,237 586 2,226 Warrant Officer I 2,239 586 2,226 Second Lieutenant 2,286 586 2,226 Lieutenant 2,286 586 2,226 Captain 2,301 586 2,226 Major 2,316 586 2,226 Lt Colonel 2,346 586 2,226 Colonel 2,366 586 2,226 Brigadier 2,426 586 2,226 Major General 2,486 586 2,226 Lt General 2,576 586 2,226 General 2,676 586 2,226 Field Marshal 2,836 586 2,226 Notes
(1) Additional allowances include—
Rent—up to £16.25 a week for the war widow with at least one child
Age—£216 at age 65
—£432 at age 70
(2) If the widow is under 40, childless and capable of self-support, and her husband was a major or below, the war pension is £514 a year—plus rank addition for first and second world war widows—increasing to the standard rate shown above at age 40.
National Insurance Pensions
A war widow cannot receive a national insurance widow's pension in addition to her war widow's pension but she can qualify for a retirement pension—standard rate £1,713 a year—if she has paid national insurance contributions herself.
422Winformation from such records; what is the present scale of disclosure of information from records held manually and on computer to police authorities; how this information is transferred; and how the transfers are recorded when they are made in oral, written or electronic form.
§ Mr. RossiEach request from the police is considered on its merits; in general, disclosure, which is normally oral and in confidence, is authorised only in relation to serious indictable offences such as murder and robbery with violence. Records of the number of requests made and the number granted are not maintained.