NATIONAL INSURANCE (PART II.) (MUNITION WORKERS) BILL.

HL Deb 12 July 1916 vol 22 c706

[SECOND READING.]

Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.

LORD STANMORE

My Lords, the object of this Bill is to set up a scheme of insurance against the unemployment which may be expected at the end of the war, when the demands of the Government for all sorts of munitions and equipments of war cease and the trades have to readjust themselves to peace conditions. It is therefore proposed to extend the scheme of unemployment insurance embodied in Part II of the National Insurance Act of 1911 so as to include munition workers. This extension will be only temporary.

Moved, That the Bill be now read 2^a.—(Lord Stanmore.)

On Question, Bill read 2^a, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.