§ 62. Mr. SANDERSasked the Secretary to the Treasury, if he is aware that the Somerset Education Committee are deducting 3d. per week for insurance from the wages amounting to 2s. 9d. a week earned by the school cleaner at South Petherton for working two and a-half hours a day for five days a week; and whether this deduction is made with the approval of the Insurance Commissioners?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe Insurance Commissioners have had no correspondence with the Somerset Education Committee with regard to this particular case. On the facts as given in the question the rate of remuneration is between 1s. 6d. and 2s. for a full working day, and the appropriate rates of contribution would be 4d. by the employer and 1d. by the woman herself. The Commissioners are communicating with the Committee on the subject.