§ Mr. BRIDGEMANasked if, in view of the decision that an approved society or branch will have to keep separate accounts for its members resident on the English and Welsh sides of the border, and that the transfer values of such members will have to be transferred from the English to the Welsh fund of the society or branch when they move from England into Wales, the society or branch will be entitled, in case the payment of benefits from its Welsh fund should exceed the receipts of that fund, to make up the difference from its English fund; if not, will the joint committee consider the advisability of providing that the society or branch may have one fund for all its members on both sides of the border; and is there any similar restriction on the movements of a deposit contributor?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe joint committee have no power to permit a society to have one fund for persons resident in England and Wales; nor has any society the power of making up the deficiency in one national fund out of the contributions of members in another national fund. If a deposit contributor moves his residence the sum standing to his individual account is transferred and no fund of any approved society is affected.
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is a very great feeling of anxiety all along the English and Welsh border on this question, and is there no possibility of having it reconsidered?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI have never heard of that anxiety. No such anxiety has been brought to my notice.
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANHas it not been brought to the right hon. Gentleman's notice by the Manchester Unity?
§ Mr. MASTERMANNo, I have not heard anything from them on the subject.