§ Mr. NEWMANasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether it is the intention of the National Insurance Commissioners to make a house-to-house distribution of literature, explanatory of the benefits of the National Insurance Act, throughout Great Britain and Ireland before the day appointed for the Act to come into operation; and whether, in the event of the answer being in the affirmative, he will say whether the cost of such house-to-house distribution is included in the estimate of £25,000 for the cost of all lectures and literature given and issued on behalf of the Act up to 15th July?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe figure of £25,000 was, as I explained in giving it, a rough estimate of the sum that would probably be expended on lectures, leaflets and other explanatory literature. I am unable to say at present whether the total expenditure, including that on the leaflet in question, will exceed that figure.