§ 33. Mr. TOUCHEasked the President of the Board of Trade whether insured civilians who have been interned abroad, and whose period of internment is to be treated as a period of temporary unemployment for the purposes of the National Insurance Acts, will be entitled to unemployment benefit in respect of any part of such period; must they pay such part of the contributions as would not have been payable in the ordinary course by the employer; and to what benefit will they be entitled in respect of such payments?
§ Mr. PRETYMANThe statement that a period of internment is to be treated as a period of temporary unemployment relates solely to health insurance, and has no application to unemployment insurance. No unemployment benefit and no unemployment insurance contributions are payable in respect of a period of internment.