Major HENDERSONasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he is now able to state the number of fully-stamped cards of compulsorily insured persons received for the first quarter during which Part I. of the National Insurance Act, 1911, has been in force for England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, respectively; and if he will state what proportion the fully-stamped cards bear to the estimated number of compulsorily insured persons?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe full figures are not yet available. In a test sort, however, of 10,000 English cards for the first quarter (which included the August holiday period) it was found that 90 per cent, had twelve or thirteen stamps affixed for the thirteen weeks.