The House met at Eleven o'clock

[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]

I regret to have to inform the House of the death of Konni Zilliacus, esquire, Members for Manchester, Gorton, and I desire on behalf of the House to express our sense of the loss we have...

• Baguley Hall, Wythenshawe

  1 speech

  With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I seek leave to table a Petition which represents the views of more than 6,400 residents of Manchester and other places who are deeply...

Considered in Committee.

• Clause 1. — (Amendments as to Contributions and Benefit Under Insurance Act.)

  55 speeches

  11.8 a.m.

Clause 2. — (Amendments of Industrial Injuries Act as to Contributions, Benefit and Insurable Employments.)

18 speeches

I beg to move Amendment No. 4, in page 2, line 18, to leave out from 'substituted' to the end of line 19 and to insert: 'benefits at the rate of two-thirds of previous earnings, subject to a...

Clause 3. — (Amendments as to Benefit Under Old Cases Act.)

1 speech

Question proposed, That the Clause stand part of the Bill.

Clause 5. — (Temporary Power to Increase Family Allowances by Order.)

20 speeches

2.15 p.m.

New Clause No. 1. — (the Non-Pensioners.)

14 speeches

The Minister shall make regulations in order to provide for the payment of a pension under the National Insurance Acts to any person who was over pensionable age on 5th July, 1948, and these...

New Clause 2. — (Widow's Benefit.)

8 speeches

Without prejudice to any other benefits to which she may be entitled under the National Insurance Acts there shall be payable a widow's pension at the following weekly rates— (i) 30s. a...

Schedule 3. — (Provisions to Be Substituted in Schedule 4 to Insurance Act.)

6 speeches

I beg to move Amendment 24, in page 11, line 42, to leave out from the beginning to the end of line 44.

Adjournment

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Fitch.]