§ Mr. Horamasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if the regulations covering the payment of unemployment benefit to workers classified as seasonal are the same in the other countries of the EEC as they are in the United Kingdom; and if a non-British EEC worker taking a seasonal job in the United Kingdom would be treated in the same way as a British worker in respect of unemployment benefit.
§ Mr. DeanInformation about the payment of unemployment benefit to seasonal workers under the legislation of Community countries is not readily available.
Under EEC social security regulations a non-British EEC worker taking a seasonal job in the United Kingdom and then registering for work here would be treated in the same way as a British seasonal worker in respect of unemployment benefit. If such a worker returned to his country of residence he would normally be entitled to any unemployment benefit in accordance with the law of that country as if his last employment had been there and at the expense of that country.