§ Mr. Rhys Daviesasked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the State grant enabling the reduced contribution of 1s. 3d. for men and 6d. for women to be paid under the Contributory Pensions (Voluntary Contributors) Act, 1937, an employer is permitted to pay such contributions himself for the employé, the employer to appropriate such State pension as part of a voluntary pension at 65 years of age, bearing in mind the provisions of Section 36 of the 1936 Act?
§ Sir K. WoodThere is nothing to debar an employer from paying on behalf of an employé the contributions which the latter has undertaken to pay under the Contributory Pensions (Voluntary Contributors) Act, 1937, but the fact that the employer has paid the contributions would not entitle him to receive any pension which may become payable under the Act in respect of the insurance of the employe.