§ Mr. CHARLES BATHURSTasked how it is proposed to assess, for the purposes of the National Insurance Bill, the annual value of an agricultural labourer's cottage occupied rent free, or the difference between its economic rent and that actually paid; and whether such annual value or difference, as the case may be, will be added to the labourer's weekly wages in order to ascertain the amount of premium payable by him and his employer respectively?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGECalculations of the value of emoluments in kind already have to be made for the purposes of the Old Age Pensions Act, and I anticipate no special difficulty in this respect under the National Insurance Bill.
§ Mr. C. BATHURSTWill the Old Age Pensions Act be taken as a basis in every case in order to estimate the economic value of the cottage as distinct from the rent actually received from it?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI should think we will arrive at it by that same process in much the same way as on the calculation under the Old Age Pensions Act.
§ Mr. C. BATHURSTIs it not the fact, I speak as a member of an old age pensions committee, that for the purpose of the Old Age Pensions Act the actual rent is taken into account and not the economic value of the cottage?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI could not answer that question.