HC Deb 12 October 1944 vol 403 cc1949-50W
Lady Apsley

asked the Minister without Portfolio when he proposes to state how the existing contributory pensions will dovetail into the new official scheme; and what benefits such pensioners will receive for the insurance they have hitherto undertaken.

Sir W. Jowitt

My hon. Friend will find the information for which she asks in paragraphs 100, 101, and 125 to 127 of the White Paper on Social Insurance (Part I).

Lady Apsley

asked the Minister without Portfolio what will be the position under the Government security scheme of persons now suffering from tuberculosis and of persons falling victims to the disease after the new essential legislation comes into force.

Sir W. Jowitt

So far as concerns insurance benefits under the Government's new proposals, tuberculous people will be in the same position as other sick people.