§ 74. Sir GEORGE YOUNGERasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether a number of employés under the Edinburgh and Leith Corporation Gas Commissioners, who do the work of lighting and extinguishing common stair gas, and who are paid 10s. per week of seven days, were, when the National Insurance Act was brought into operation, declared by the Insurance Commissioners to be under the Act; that the sum of 4d. per week was accordingly deducted from their wages; that recently the Commissioners issued statutory rules and orders showing that those stair lighters who only gave part-time service were exempted from payment; and that they now refuse to refund the contributions paid in respect of those men under their own instructions; and whether steps can be taken to order repayment of such contributions?
Mr. ROBERTSONI would refer the hon. Baronet to the answer I gave yesterday to my hon. Friend the Member for South Edinburgh.
§ Sir G. YOUNGERIs the hon. Gentleman now in a position to give an answer to the supplementary question put yesterday by my hon. Friend as to what will be done with this money?
§ Mr. LYELLAre we to understand that the Insurance Commissioners are absolutely prohibited by the Insurance Act from making this repayment?