§ Mr. PRATTasked the hon. Member for St. George's-in-the-East, as representing the Insurance Commissioners, to what benefits an employed person would be entitled on payment of the ordinary weekly contribution whose age was forty-five and who, owing to absence in Canada, did not begin to pay his contributions under the National Insurance Act until April, 1914; and by what means could such an employed person secure the full benefits of the Act?
§ Mr. W. BENNA man entering insurance for the first time after 12th October, 1913, at the age of forty-five has the option of having a reduced rate of sickness benefit of 5s., or of either paying a capital sum of £4 17s. or an extra weekly contribution of 3½d., in order to receive the full rate of sickness benefit. He is in any case entitled to the other benefits, namely, medical, sanatorium, maternity, and disablement benefits at the same rates and on the same conditions as persons entering insurance before October, 1913.