§ Mr. CLYNESasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer concerning the case of labourers who would pay for unemployment insurance when engaged in a trade covered by' the Insurance Bill, whether he intends to provide for the return to them of any money they have paid in cases where they are compelled to take work in some other trade which could offer them no unemployment benefit?
Mr. BUXTONUnder the Unemployment Insurance Scheme it is not necessary 1963W to make any special provision to meet the case referred to by my hon. Friend, namely, that of labourers who work at one time at occupations within the scope of the insured trades and at another time at occupations outside those trades. Such labourers will contribute to the fund so long as they are employed in an insured trade, and thereupon they will become entitled to the benefits prescribed in the Bill whilst unemployed, whether or not they work at another trade in the meantime. Their claim to benefit will, of course, he limited automatically by the rule that not more than one week's benefit is payable for every five weeks' contributions.