§ Mr. Fortescueasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will amend the National Insurance (Classification) Regulations to ensure that where a person hires out a cab to another person for a fixed hiring charge and receives no other payment, apart from that charge, the person who hires the cab is treated 30W as a self-employed person for the purposes of the National Insurance Acts and not as at present an employed person; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. CrossmanI had no such amendment immediately in mind, though I should be glad to consider any points the hon. Member may wish to put to me in support of a change. Under our proposals in the White Paper on "National Superannuation and Social Insurance", however, all contributions for employed persons will be collected through P.A.Y.E.; and I shall be examining specially the implications of this change for those, including taxi-drivers, who are at present treated as employed persons for National Insurance purposes but do not come within the P.A.Y.E. Income Tax system.