§ 34. Mr. THORNEasked the Minister of Labour why his Department refuses to refund the balance of the contributions, prior to 1928, paid in error to the Unemployment Insurance Fund by the employés in the baths department of the Dundee Corporation; whether he is aware that they were required to pay contributions until it was decided in 1926 that such employés were not eligible to either contribute or receive benefit; that this information was not circulated by his Department to all local authorities employing such workpeople; that these employés have been paying contributions, with the approval of his inspectors, from the date of their employment under the Dundee Corporation and, in some cases, from the inception of the Act, 1910, to March, 1934, when notice to end the contributions was given; and whether he will cause inquiries to be made as to why these contributions were not returned in full?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. R. S. Hudson)I am making inquiry, as the hon. Member requests, and will write to him as soon as possible.
§ Mr. THORNEWill the hon. Gentleman consider the advisability of linking up with State insurance all the men and women that he possibly can, especially where they are in regular employment?
§ Mr. HUDSONI think that that is generally the effect of the Act which was passed last year.