§ 18. Sir NICHOLAS GRATTAN-DOYLEasked the Minister of Labour whether she will inquire into and report on the results obtained in countries in which the experiment of compulsory holidays for industrial workers on a modified rate of pay has been put into operation as a means of reducing the incidence of unemployment; and what has been the effect of any such scheme?
§ Miss BONDFIELDSo far as I am aware, the only country in which a scheme of this character has been 598 adopted on an organised basis is Holland, where arrangements are in operation under which employers who pay wages to workers suspended from their employment may recover part of the amount so paid from the State provided that the Commune in which the workers reside also contributes. I have no information as to the effect of this or any other such scheme, but I will make inquiries on the subject from the International Labour Office.
§ Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLEMay I be permitted to give the right hon. Lady Information which apparently she has not got?