HC Deb 10 April 1974 vol 872 cc513-4

Queen's Recommendation having been signified—

Resolved,

That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to amend the provisions of the National Insurance Acts 1965 to 1973, the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Acts 1965 to 1973 and the Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Acts 1967 to 1973 as to the rate or amount of benefit and contributions, it is expedient to authorise the following payments out of money provided by Parliament—

  1. (1) Such additional payments as result from—
    1. (a) raising to £8.00 and £5.35 the rates of attendance allowance;
    2. (b) raising to £6.00 and £3.70 the rates of retirement pension payable by virtue of section 1(1)(a) or (b) of the National Insurance Act 1970 or section 5 of the National Insurance Act 1971 or raising the weekly rates of the increases (where payable) for children or adult dependants.
  2. (2) In connection with the increase of contributions under section 3 (flat rate contributions) of the National Insurance Act 1965 or under section 2(1)(a) of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965, the payment of any resulting increase in the sums payable by way of Exchequer supplement under section 7 of the National Insurance Act 1965 or section 2(1)(b) of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965.
  3. (3) The payment to the National Insurance Fund, in addition to the Exchequer supplements under the National Insurance Act 1965, in respect of the financial year 1974–75 of the sum of £315 million instead 514 of the amount required by section 2(4) of the National Insurance and Supplementary Benefit Act 1973.
  4. (4) Subject to the provision made by section 85 of the National Insurance Act 1965 for reimbursement out of the National Insurance Fund or by section 61 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965 for reimbursement out of the Industrial Injuries Fund, the payment of any increase attributable to the said Act of the present Session in the expenses of the Secretary of State for Social Services or any other government department which are so payable under either of these sections (any reference in this paragraph to section 61 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965 being taken to include that section as applied by section 13 of the Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1967).
  5. (5) Subject to the provision made by subsection (4) of section 46 of the Social Security Act 1973 for reimbursement out of the National Insurance Fund, the payment of any increase in the sums so payable under subsection (2) of that section in respect of the expenses and benefits mentioned in that subsection where the increase is attributable to provisions of the said Act of the present Session substituting a reference to earnings for the reference to prices in section 39(3)(a) of the said Act of 1973 or providing for an order made under the said section 39, in consequence of a review carried out in pursuance of that section in the year beginning on 6th April 1975, to come into force not later than the end of the week beginning with 28th July 1975.—[Mr. Joel Barnett.]