Part of Oral Answers to Questions — War Transport – in the House of Commons at on 15 October 1941.
Mr Robert Taylor
, Morpeth
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport whether he is aware that when sailors are off sick they receive only National Health Insurance benefit, while officers, mates and engineers, when sick, are made up to full wages out of pool; and will he have inquiries made into the reason why such difference exists?