§ 57. Sir GEORGE PENNYasked the Prime Minister when he expects the advisory committee to be set up under the Unemployment Insurance (No. 3) Bill will begin their work; and whether he will consider the advisability of setting up a three-party committee to advise the Government what action should be taken to deal with the abuses, in view of the fact that by this method it would expedite the necessary action being taken?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe date upon which the advisory committee will begin their work must depend upon the date when the Bill becomes law. The answer to the second part of the question is in the negative.
§ Sir G. PENNYWould it not have helped the right hon. Gentleman very considerably if he had allowed the first three-party committee to give their findings so that he would have been able to deal with the abuses?
§ Mr. BECKETTCannot the right hon. Gentleman postpone the setting up of this committee until the pledges originally made by the Government have been carried out?