§ 72. Mr. Osborneasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury why he appointed specialists from the Medical Research Council to visit Royal Ordnance factories to examine causes of sickness; how far has sickness with pay increased; and why he proposes to modify the sick pay scheme.
§ Mr. JayInvestigators from the Medical Research Council were asked to examine the working of the sick pay scheme in Government industrial establishments because preliminary reports suggested that sick absence had increased since the scheme came in. But no central records of absence are kept, and until the investigation is finished I shall have no reliable statistics on which to take any decision about modifying the scheme.