The Parliamentary Secretary may have dealt with section 13 when I was absent. I apologise for my absence for the first ten minutes of his contribution.
I referred before to the anomaly that arises when a pensioner dies and leaves a widow who is not of pensionable age. The reduction of the qualifying age for pension purposes puts the widow in a more advantageous position. Can the Parliamentary Secretary say why the widow in those circumstances should have free electricity, free television and free travel taken away from her? The Parliamentary Secretary will agree that when her husband was living she had the benefit of all that, but now when her husband has died and she needs it most it has been taken away.