§ 58. Mr. JENKINSasked the Minister of health the number of cases where proceedings have been taken against employers who have deducted money from workmen's wages for health and unemployment insurance purposes and who have not stamped the workmen's cards, thereby depriving employés of benefits; the extent of the fines inflicted by the court upon such employers; and what steps will he take to ensure protection for the insured persons?
§ Mr. GREENWOODThe number of employers prosecuted in England and Wales in 1929 for failing to stamp their employés' health insurance cards or unemployment books, or both, was 1,052, and the fines amounted to£4,897, or approximately£4 13s. od. per employer. In a large proportion of the cases deductions for insurance had been made from 2382 the employés' wages, but I cannot give the exact number. Nor can I say how many employés (if any) were deprived of benefits owing to their employers' noncompliance, but any such employé is protected by Section 98 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1924 and Section 24 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1920, which entitle him to recover from the employer the amount of health or unemployment insurance benefit lost.