§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what will be the estimated cost, as a result of the abolition of earnings-related sickness benefit, to those employers who make up sickness benefit to full pay when their employees are ill.
§ Mr. PrenticeInsufficient information is available about occupational sick pay schemes and about the incidence of sick absence of employees in such a scheme for an estimate to be made of the costs that will be incurred by those employers who agree to make good the value of earnings-related supplement when it is abolished.