§ MR. L. HASLAM (Monmouth Boroughs)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in view of the difficulty of determining under the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act whether a workman is a casual workman or is a workman under the conditions of the Act, whether he will consider the advisability of issuing a circular showing the means by which employers, and especially employers employing workmen intermittently, may safeguard themselves by means of insurance against liabilities they may incur under the Act.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) I am having prepared for official publication a leaflet giving a synopsis of those provisions of the Act which are of general importance. I have also under consideration the question of drawing attention, by means of public notices, to the liabilities imposed upon employers by the Act, and to the desirability of insurance.