Orders of the Day — National Insurance Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 9 December 1954.

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Photo of Mr James Griffiths Mr James Griffiths , Llanelli 12:00, 9 December 1954

The Minister knows perfectly well that the figure of 8½ per cent. was put forward by Sir William Beveridge, as he then was, and was accepted by the Coalition Government, of which the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance was a member and I was not. I accepted it, also.