§ 68. Mr. Lewisasked the Minister of National Insurance to make a detailed statement explaining how and why, under his regulations, a Member of Parliament is classified as self-employed for the purposes of contribution to, and benefits from, the National Insurance Acts; and whether he will take steps to ensure that a self-employed person is one who is employed by himself and not liable to dismissal or having salary amendments 186W by persons or organisations outside his immediate control.
§ Mr. PeakeMembers of this House are gainfully occupied but as they are not employed under a contract of service, they fall by virtue of Section I of the National Insurance Act, 1946, into the class described therein as "selfemployed." The answer to the second part of the Question is "No."