60. Mr. De la Bèreasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in connection with certain group policy insurance schemes which have been effected by the Legal and General Assurance Company for some years prior to the war, and in which there is no war clause, he will institute a public inquiry as to why those men who are insured under the scheme 539 and have joined the Forces are deemed to have left the service of their peace-time employers in view of the fact that their peace-time employers are guaranteeing their salaries whilst serving and are under an obligation to take them back in their former positions at the end of the war?
Major Lloyd GeorgeI have been asked to reply. I am having inquiries made and will communicate the result to my hon. Friend as soon as possible.
Mr. De la BèreDoes not my hon. Friend realise that this powerful and well-known insurance company really ought to give a square deal to those who join the Forces? Perhaps my hon. Friend will see me afterwards and I will give him all the relevant facts. I do not think he has got them. This is a very bad case.