Existing below the minimum

MY question to Jacqui Smith, MP for Redditch, is as follow's:- "Is the right honourable lady, the Home Secretary and member for Redditch, aware that a recent survey found 38 per cent of ex-service pensioners are existing on an income below the minimum required for healthy living. And further, that many have been forced, through poverty, to ration everyday essentials, similar to their experience during and after the Second World War. In the light of her kind recent remark's, on the occasion of the Redditch Veteran's Day Parade, what plan's has she to draw the attention of her colleagues to this outrageous situation? I await madam Home Secretary's reply with interest! Tom Wareing Headless Cross,... [read full story]