Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Pensions and National Insurance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 June 1964.
Mr Stephen Swingler
, Newcastle-under-Lyme
12:00,
22 June 1964
Is not the Parliamentary Secretary aware, quoting a case from my Constituency, that where a woman has nursed a man for 10 years who is reckoned to be 80 per cent. disabled by pneumoconiosis, it creates a deep sense of injustice when she is not entitled to an industrial widow's benefit?
In a general election, each Constituency chooses an MP to represent them. MPs have a responsibility to represnt the views of the Constituency in the House of Commons. There are 650 Constituencies, and thus 650 MPs. A citizen of a Constituency is known as a Constituent
