Resolution reported,That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to extend the meaning of the word "child" in the Family Allowances Acts, the National Insurance Acts and the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Acts and to Increase widowed mother's allowance and certain other benefits under the National Insurance Acts and the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Acts paid in respect of or by reference to children, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament—

1. (a) of any increase in the moneys so payable under the Family Allowances Act 1945, whether on account of allowances or of the expenses of the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, being an increase attributable to any extension of the meaning of the world "child" in that Act to include persons up to the age of 19 who are undergoing full-time instruction in a school or who are apprentices, and
2. (b) any increase attributable to the new Act in the moneys so payable under section 38 of the National Insurance Act 1946 or section 60 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 (administrative expenses).

Resolution agreed to.