Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 April 1953.
Is the Financial Secretary to the Treasury aware that the hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir J. Mellor) is quite wrong in thinking that there is anything in the general law of the land which is hostile to a sick man getting his full salary from his employer and still getting the insurance benefits for which he has paid his weekly contributions? In view of that, will the Financial Secretary say what the saving to the Exchequer would be if this very mean proposal were adopted, and whether he has had from the 1922 Committee any proposals which are more constructive than this for slashing Government expenditure?