§ 17. Mr. Fowlerasked the Minister of Social Security whether she will amend the rules governing the payment of unemployment benefit, whereby many nightshift workers on short-time receive no benefit, though working fewer hours than day-shift workers in receipt of benefit.
§ Miss HerbisonI would refer my hon. Friend to the Answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Bedfordshire, South (Mr. Gwilym Roberts) on 14th November last.—[Vol. 736, c. 21–2.]