asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Government will sympathetically consider the introduction of legislation to improve conditions in regard to old age pensions by granting the full scale to all those over 70 years of age whose income or joint incomes are less than, say, £100 per annum, and supersede the existing scale which at present involves hardships, penalises thrift, and is conducive to subterfuge being often resorted to?

I fear I can add nothing to the statement I made on the 21st February last on the Motion of the hon. Member for the Bridgeton Division of Glasgow (Mr. Maxton).