HC Deb 19 January 1970 vol 794 cc176-7

Queen's Recommendation having been signified—

Resolved, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make further provision with respect to national superannuation and social insurance and with respect to benefit under the Ministry of Social Security Act 1966, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of—

(1) payments by way of contributions, into the funds out of which benefit is payable under the said Act of the present Session (hereafter referred to as 'the Act'), equal to 18 per cent. of the estimated sums which, under the Act would have been paid into those funds out of the contributions payable under the Act by employers and employees and other individuals if the Act had not provided for the abatement of contributions relating to certain employments;

(2) any expenses incurred by a Minister of the Crown or government department in carrying the Act or the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965 into effect or with a view to obtaining statistics, except in so far as those expenses are required by either of those Acts to be paid and borne in some other manner (excluding reimbursement from the funds aforesaid);

(3) any expenses incurred by a Minister of the Crown by virtue of provisions of the Act authorising him to exercise, in relation to employments qualifying for pension under certain enactments, any functions conferred on employers by the Act;

(4) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable under any other enactment out of moneys so provided.—[Mr. Ennals.]