Parents' Pensions

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Pensions – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 9 December 1947.

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Photo of Mr George Buchanan Mr George Buchanan , Glasgow Gorbals 12:00, 9 December 1947

I regret that a reliable estimate could not be made without a detailed examination of a very wide cross-section of varying types of case, numbering in all some 80,000. On a very broad survey of the position it looks as though the cost of the hon. Member's proposal would be somewhere round about £75,000 a year.