§ 75. Mr. Prenticeasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance what changes he proposes to introduce in the National Insurance and Industrial Injuries schemes, as a result of the recent European Convention of the International Labour Organisation on the social security rights of transport workers, which is designed to protect the position of these workers when their duties take them abroad.
Mr. VaneNone. Her Majesty's Government do not propose to sign this Convention because it would involve transferring certain transport workers out of the scope of the British scheme of Industrial Injuries insurance without any guarantee that the foreign scheme under which they became insured would provide benefits for their dependants if they suffered fatal accidents. But we have concluded reciprocal agreements with most of the countries of Western Europe which provide, among other things, that transport workers who are sent abroad from this country remain within the scope of our National Insurance and Industrial Injuries schemes while they are working in those countries.