Unemployment Benefit

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Pensions and National Insurance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 3 December 1962.

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Photo of Mr Niall Macpherson Mr Niall Macpherson , Dumfriesshire 12:00, 3 December 1962

Yes, but this is the effect of this guarantee agreement. There is nothing to prevent men on short time during Christmas week, or any other week in which a holiday occurs, getting unemployment benefit subject to the conditions of the agreement, which can be negotiated and re-negotiated.