§ Mr. Haleasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance what is the amount of the insurance contribution payable weekly from the age of 65 years by a male worker earning £18 per week and who has, until attaining that age, been paying his contributions to a contracted-out scheme which ceases to apply to him from the age of 65.
§ Mr. WoodA man who goes on working after he is 65 in a job where he has been contracted out of the graduated part of the National Insurance scheme, remains contracted out even though his occupational pension scheme has ceased to apply to him from that age. He continues to pay the normal contracted out contribution of 14s. 1d. a week which includes the separate National Health Service contribution. If he leaves his contracted-out employment, however, and does not retire but takes another job at £18 a week or more, his total weekly contribution is 19s. 4d., of which 11s. 8d. is the flat-rate contribution and 7s. 8d. the graduated contribution.