§ 11. Mr. McKayasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance what he estimates would have been the income to the National Insurance Fund in 1957–58 if contributions had been based on 2 per cent. of wages, salaries, and Forces' pay for insured persons, 4 per cent. for employers, and 6 per cent. on their own incomes for the self-employed and the Exchequer supplement had been one-sixth of the total thus subscribed.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterThe latest detailed figures of earnings, etc., are those contained in the 1958 Blue Book on National Income and Expenditure and relate to the calendar year 1957. For that year, the income to the National Insurance Fund on the basis suggested would have been about £950 million.