§ Mr. RAFFANasked the Comptroller of the Household, as representing the National Health Insurance Commissioners whether residents in the Channel Islands who were, previously to the War, outside the purview of the National Insurance Act, are, upon joining the Army, having deductions made from their pay in respect of insurance contributions; if so, what is to become of the moneys so contributed; and would such a contributor, discharged from the Service on account of wounds or disease, upon his return to his home in the Channel Islands, be entitled to the benefits of the Act?
§ Mr. C. ROBERTSResidents in the Channel Islands who enlist for the duration of the War are entitled to elect not to have deductions made from their pay in respect of insurance contributions. Contributions paid in respect of persons who have not so elected are credited to the Navy and Army Insurance Fund. The answer to the last part of the question is in the negative.
§ Mr. BOOTHasked the Comptroller of the Household, as representing the National Health Commissioners, whether inhabitants of the Channel Islands, and other places to which the Insurance Act does not apply, are entitled upon enrolment in any of His Majesty's Forces to elect to still remain outside the Act, notwithstanding that they may be stationed in the United Kingdom; and, if not, will he consider the desirability of according to them the privilege given to persons resident in the United Kingdom who, by 463W reason of earned income, were previously to joining His Majesty's Forces outside the scope of the Insurance Act?
§ Mr. ROBERTSNo distinction is drawn, as regards insurance during service with His Majesty's Forces, between the two classes of persons mentioned in the question.