§ MR. TENNANT (Berwickshire)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will grant a Return of the accident and sickness insurance laws in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, setting forth the amounts contributed by the workpeople, the number of days sickness before which compensation becomes payable, and the scale of such compensation in the case of death, total disablement, partial disablement through total loss of a limb, and for temporary disablement through accident and sickness respectively.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) I understand that the Departmental Committee on the Workmen's Compensation Acts has collected material with regard to foreign laws of a kindred nature and will print in an Appendix to their Report a Memorandum which will deal, amongst other matters, with the points indicated by the hon. Member. I think that such a Memorandum is likely to serve the hon. Member's purpose better than any Return which I could compile. There would be very great difficulty in dealing with this subject use fully in the form of a Return; and I suggest that it would be best to await the issue of the Memorandum referred to.