§ 16 and 17. Colonel Stoddart-Scottasked the Minister of National Insurance (1) if he will arrange for individuals who have paid all their contributions under the National Insurance Act, 1946, to be entitled to all pensions and benefits without reference to any previous voluntary contributions in an approved society, so that they will not be at a disadvantage compared with a new entrant who made no contribution prior to 1947;
(2) if he is aware that some contributors to National Insurance who prior to 1946 had been voluntary contributors in an approved society are worse off than new entrants; and why a voluntary contributor who has paid all his National Insurance contributions is unable to qualify for full pensions without his previous record of contributions being taken into account.
§ Mr. PeakeThe arrangements under which rights and obligations under the previous insurance schemes were carried into the present scheme were, in general, greatly to the advantage of those concerned. To change them now would involve breaches of faith with persons who contributed in the knowledge that these arrangements would operate, and I am not prepared to re-open them.