Members' Salaries (Sickness Benefits)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 April 1953.

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Photo of Mr John Boyd-Carpenter Mr John Boyd-Carpenter , Kingston upon Thames 12:00, 14 April 1953

I would suggest that this matter should be left on the basis that a Member will decide, in the light of his individual circumstances, whether it is proper for him to draw his full Parliamentary salary in respect of any period when he is drawing sickness benefit from the Ministry of National Insurance.