§ Mr. WILKIEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any member of a friendly society who becomes an insured person will receive any larger benefit from the operation of the National Insurance Bill than any insured person who does not belong to any society of that character but who has made provision for sickness by deposits in a savings bank, the whole or part of which provision will be released -by the benefit's under the Bill; and, if so, seeing that the friendly society member is at a disadvantage in consequence of the Bill as compared with such person, inasmuch as, while receiving no greater benefit, the friendly society member is, through his society, compelled to incur considerable expense in preparing a scheme for the readjusting of his benefits and contributions, whereas the person who has made his provision against sickness by means of deposits in the savings bank or elsewhere would have his provision released to exactly the same extent as the friendly society member, without any expense being required by the operation of Clause 55 or any other Clause under the National Insurance Bill, whether he proposes to make any allowance to friendly societies for the cost incurred by means of the operation of that Clause?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEThe answer to the first part of the question is, in the case of solvent societies, in the affirmative. The rest of the question, therefore, does not arise.