HC Deb 18 February 1930 vol 235 cc1179-80W
Viscount ELMLEY

asked the Minister of Labour if she will introduce legislation to extend unemployment insurance to all fishermen working on drifters and trawlers?

Mr. LAWSON

As my right hon. Friend explained on 11th February in reply to a question by the Noble Lord, fishermen are ordinarily insurable against unemployment unless they are members of the crew of a fishing vessel who are wholly remunerated by a share in the profits or the gross earnings of the working of the vessel. My right hon. Friend cannot at present give any undertaking to introduce legislation on the subject.

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