§ Viscount WOLMERasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that up till now attendants in Lancashire county asylums have been entitled to full wages and board when ill, with a pension upon retirement; whether he will therefore instruct the Insurance Commissioners to exempt them from the operation of the National Insurance Act; and whether, in the event of the terms of their employment being altered in order to bring them within the scope of the Act, the Insurance Commissioners would refuse to countenance such a proceeding?
§ Mr. MASTERMANNo formal application for exception of this class of persons has yet been received, and the Insurance Commissioners cannot, of course, give a certificate until this is sent. As regards the latter part of the question, the terms of employment, apart from any statutory rights employed persons may possess, are a matter of contract between employer and employed, and the Commissioners would have no right to intervene.