HC Deb 14 March 1940 vol 358 c1385W
Sir A. Wilson

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is satisfied that the annual report of the Industrial Assurance Commissioner for 1938, recently presented to Parliament in abbreviated form, is in conformity with the intention of Section 44 of the Industrial Assurance Act, 1923; and whether he will consider the desirability, in view of the growing importance of the subject, of requesting the Industrial Assurance Commissioner to make a report upon the year 1939 in the fuller form hitherto customary?

Sir J. Simon

In the interests of economy it has been arranged that, during the continuance of the present emergency, reports and other similar publications shall be reduced to the minimum essential dimensions. I think that the Industrial Assurance Commissioner has conformed with this general ruling in a commendable manner.