Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am ar 15 Gorffennaf 1925.
I quite agree. They are included in contrast—the compensation which you get under the Workmen's Compensation Act and the other. You are not to get both, because there are two kinds of disablement, one arising from sickness and one from accident, and if you get the one you cannot get the other. But to say that you are not to get benefits under this scheme because you are getting compensation, is an entirely different proposition, and the Government in the drafting of this Clause, show that they appreciate that the two things are entirely different. It may be due to what the right hon. Gentleman himself has described, as the softness of his heart, but whether the reason be a financial reason or not, you cannot excuse the deprivation of persons of their clear insurable rights by saying that the employer under an entirely different liability has paid them workmen's compensation.