§ Viscount WOLMERasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether a man normally earning £1 a week, but being a member of two or more friendly societies, so that during sickness he is in receipt of 22s. per week, would, under Clause 9, Subsection (2) of the National Insurance Bill, only receive 13s. 4d. per week sick benefit, or whether he is only to be deprived either partially or entirely of the contributions of his employer and of the State towards his total benefit?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEClause 9, Subsection (2) only applies to the rate of sickness benefit or disablement benefit payable under the National Health Insurance scheme, and would therefore not operate in the case quoted by the Noble Lord. That case would, however, come under the proviso to Clause 27, in pursuance of which the man's sickness benefit under the Bill would be reduced by 2s.