§ 40. Mr. Shinwellasked the Minister of Power what representations he has received about mineworkers who are declared redundant under the Payments Scheme Order 1968 and are excluded from payment on account of loss of earnings due to membership of a local authority; and what reply he has sent.
§ Mr. MasonI would refer my right hon. Friend to the reply given by my predecessor to my hon. Friend the Member for Dearne Valley (Mr. Edwin Wainwright) on 28th May last. Subsequent representations made to him by the National Union of Mineworkers and 247W to me by my hon. Friends the Members for South Shields (Mr. Blenkinsop) and for Newark (Mr. Bishop) have been answered in the same sense.—[Vol. 765, c. 188.]