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31.
Mr. O'Halloran
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will reconsider the question of paying the £10 bonus to pensioners for Christmas 1976.
Mr. O'Malley
Our views as to a Christmas bonus payment remain as my right hon. Friend put them before the House in her statement of 22nd May 1975—[Vol. 892, c. 1624.]—explaining the Government's decision not to legislate for such a payment in 1975.