HC Deb 19 October 1990 vol 177 c948W
Mr. Allen McKay

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will consider the payment of a war widows' pension to widows of ex-service men who die as a result of disease or injury contracted during the war.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

A war widows' pension is awarded where the husband's death is due to or substantially hastened by service in the armed forces, irrespective of whether service was during war or peacetime.