Mr Major’s Written Parliamentary Answer on Rhodesian Service Pensions – 21 October 1985

Below is the text of Mr Major’s written Parliamentary Answer on Rhodesian Service Pensions on 21st October 1985.

Viscount Cranborne Asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether, in the light of the decline in the value of the Zimbabwe dollar against the pound sterling, he will bring forward proposals for increasing the value of pensions awarded to war widows of Rhodesian service men who are British citizens having re-settled in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Major The United Kingdom Government may supplement a war widow’s pension payable to a British citizen resident in this country by the government of a former colony. The supplement is set at a level sufficient to raise the pension to the amount which would be payable under the United Kingdom war widows’ pension scheme and is usually recalculated annually. If my hon. Friend has a particular case in mind which he would like me to look into, I should be happy to do so.