52. Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTTasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in the case of an insured English woman who is married to an alien, the full Government Grant is made towards maternity benefit if her husband is not also insured and she is entitled to receive the full maternity benefit, but if her husband is also insured no Government Grant is made towards maternity benefit and her husband is only entitled to receive a, reduced maternity benefit in respect of her confinement; and, if this be so, whether he will consider the propriety of amending this in the forthcoming Bill?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe woman referred to would, under the Naturalisation Act, 1870, be an alien, so that there would be no difference as to the payment of the Government Grant in the two cases referred to by my hon. Friend.
§ Mr. MASTERMANI do not think so.
Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTTIs it not the case that provision has been made in the Act that these women should not be treated as aliens, and is not a similar provision made in the Old Age Pensions Act?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI do not think that is the case.
Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTTIs it the case in the Old Age Pensions Act?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI cannot say.