§ Mr. D. GRENFELLasked the Minister of Health the amount of contributions to the Health Insurance Fund for the years 1924, 1925, and 1926, with the number of insured persons receiving benefit in each year and the total number of weeks for which benefit has been paid?
§ Sir K. WOODThe amount of contributions paid into the National Health Insurance Funds in Great Britain for the years specified was in round figures:
£ 1924 … … … 27,000,000 1925 … … … 28,000,000 1926 … … … 24,500,000 Exact particulars are not available as to the number of weeks for which sicknees benefit and disablement benefit were paid, or as to the number of persons in receipt of benefit for any year, as no occasion has arisen for requiring approved societies to keep such statistics. It may, however, be estimated that the total number of weeks of sickness represented by the amounts paid as sickness and disablement benefit in each of the years specified was, on a rough approximation:
- 26 million weeks in 1924;
- 28 million weeks in 1925;
- 31½ million weeks in 1926.