§ Mr. Home Robertsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will review the conditions covering unemployment benefit for share fishermen, having regard to the situation which arose in February where fishermen who could not work because of their skipper's dispute with the Government were not paid unemployment benefit.
§ Mrs. ChalkerNo. The additional conditions in the Mariners' Benefit Regulations 1975, which share fishermen have to satisfy in order to be entitled to unemployment benefit, have been in existence for many years and I am satisfied that in general they operate fairly, given the special circumstances under which share fishermen work and claim unemployment benefit.