§ Sir W. Smithersasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can give an estimate of the amount of money that will be required to compensate full-time officers of the approved and friendly societies who are displaced by the Social Insurance Scheme.
§ Sir J. AndersonNo, Sir. It is not possible at this stage to estimate the number of full-time officers of Approved Societies who will be displaced by the new scheme.
§ Sir W. Smithersasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is proposed to put into operation the schemes for Social Security before the cessation of hostilities; and why the years 1945, 1955, 1965, 1975 have been selected in Table IV of Cmd. 6550.
§ Sir J. AndersonI must ask my hon. Friend to await the development of the Government's plans. As regards the second part of the Question, the year 1945 1805W was adopted (as is explained in the paragraph immediately preceding Table IV) for convenience of comparison with previous estimates. The other years follow 1945 at ten year intervals, those intervals being convenient for exhibiting the development of social insurance costs.