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Mr. Biggs-Davison
asked the Minister of Social Security whether she will consider giving some compensation to a man who retires after pensionable age and then loses his wife, having foregone his wife's pension while still in work after pensionable age.
Mr. Pentland
No. To extend the provision of increments on the wife's pension to benefit the husband in this way would not be justified.