The Government Actuary, in his Report on the Unemployment Insurance Bill, estimates that the savings under Clauses 1 and 2 will amount to between £6,000,000 and £6,500,000 per annum, according to the state of unemployment. Of this amount, about £4,500,000, I am advised, is attributable to the difference between a waiting period of six days and one of three days. As regards the suggestion that the Poor Law authorities were relieved of a burden last year by the reduction of the waiting period, or will now have a burden cast upon them by an increase in this period, I would point out that, as was explained in yesterday's Debate, a waiting period without benefit normally follows immediately after a substantial period of employment. Accordingly, an increase in the waiting period from three days to six should not result in any appreciable addition to the amount paid by Poor Law authorities in relief of destitution, nor should a reduction in the period from six days to three result in an appreciable decrease in this amount.