§ MR. JOHN WARD (Stoke-on-Trent)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the case of Alfred Parker, of Holloway, N., who was injured by accident while working for Messrs. Gray, Hill, and Company, causing the loss of the use of both arms; whether he is aware that the firm has since gone into liquidation, and that the National Assurance Company, of Bedford, with whom the firm were insured, have also gone into liquidation; and seeing that this fact has deprived Alfred Parker of the compensation to which he was entitled under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906, what action, if any, he proposes to take to secure to injured workmen the compensation which the law allows.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. GLAD-STONE,) Leeds,W.I have no information with regard to this case, and, as I stated on 4th March last in answer to my hon. friend the Member for Montgomery Boroughs, I do not see what remedy can be provided to meet such cases except by the establishment of some system of compulsory insurance.