§ 60. Mr. STEPHENasked the Minister of Labour whether he has decided to accept the new scales of unemployment benefit proposed in the Blanesburgh Report in the Unemployment Insurance Bill which he is proposing to introduce?
§ Mr. BETTERTONI am afraid I must ask the hon. Member to await the circulation of the Bill.
§ Mr. STEPHENCan the hon. Gentleman say whether this Bill will be circulated before the end of this part of the Session?
§ Mr. BETTERTONNo, Sir; but the hon. Gentleman may remember that the 846 Prime Minister the other day gave an undertaking, which of course will be carried out, that the Bill would be circulated in ample time for the Second Reading in the second part of the Session.
§ Mr. W. THORNEIs there any truth in the report that the Bill is already in circulation?
§ Mr. BETTERTONNo, that is not so.