MARQUESS of TULLIBARDINEasked the Secretary to the Treasury what weekly contribution employers will have to pay under the National Insurance Act for employés usually engaged in the building trade, but who are engaged by them for two months consecutively at some other work not included in the building trade; how much will the said employés have to pay not to lose their unemployment benefit; and who will make up the difference, if any, between the sum due by the employer as an employer of ordinary labour and the sum due by an employer of a member of the building trade?
Mr. BUXTONMy hon. Friend has asked me to answer this question, which apparently relates to unemployment insurance. No contribution is payable under Part II. of the National Insurance Act, either by the employer or the workman, when the workman is not working at an insured trade. Any workman who has been working partly in an insured trade and partly not in an insured trade, will be entitled on becoming unemployed to unemployment benefit in the proportion of one week's benefit for every five contributions paid by him under the Act.
MARQUESS Of TULLIBARDINEDoes that mean to say that he will have to make up the deficit before he can get unemployed benefit?
Mr. BUXTONAs far as he has paid in contributions he will receive benefit. Perhaps the Noble Lord will kindly put any further question down.