§ 5. Mr. BUCHANANasked the Minister of Labour if he can state if, when married women are disallowed benefit under the Anomalies Act, any inquiry is made into the wages earned by their husbands at the time of the claim being made; and in how many cases do their husbands earn £5 a week?
§ Sir H. BETTERTONThe circumstances of the husband of a married woman may be relevant to the question whether the applicant will normally seek to obtain her livelihood by means of insurable employment, and it is, therefore, within the competence of the statutory authorities to make inquiries on the point. I have no statistics as to the last part of the question.