Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 1740277147

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-132094

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XII, 394 S.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VI. The financial burden of the existing social services

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Social Service. Public Education... cus Expenditure under the Pub- lic Health Acts :— (1) hospitals and treat- ment of diseases. (2) maternity and child welfare work. Old Age Pensions (non- contributory ). Housing of the Working Classes. Poor Law Relief (including lunacy and mental defi- ciency). MAJORITY REPORT. Parliamen- tary votes and grants. Local rates. & 16,100,000 2,300,000 725,000 27,000,000 8,100,000 4,000,000 x 34,100,000 4,900,000 735.000 rR 1,000,000 38,000,000 88,225,000 78,735,000 Other receipts. Total. oo 6,400,000 x 86,600,000 600,000 7,800,000 340,000 1,800,000 27,000,000 7,400,000 4,000,000 16,500,000 46,000,000 18,740,000 | 185,700,000 Ht 143. Insurance against liability under the Workmen's Com- pensation Act may also be properly included in this brief review. The annual expenditure under this head appears to be about £12,000,000, the whole of which falls directly upon the employers, but the greater part of it indirectly upon the community. 144. Thus, in total, the nation, in a time of great industrial depression, is meeting an annual charge for social services of about £308 millions, which is provided as to £112 millions from taxation, as to £79 millions from rates, and as to £98 millions by some form or other of insurance payment. EVIDENCE AS To THE BURDEN ON INDUSTRY. 145. We have heard evidence from the National Confederation of Employers’ Organisations on this aspect of the problem (Q. 24,543-24 548), and we direct attention also to the statement which they have submitted to us (App. CVII). That Confedera- tion claims to speak authoritatively on behalf of the employers of the country, as it is a central body representative of the various great federations whose constituent members have in the aggre- gate an employment roll of about seven million workers. The witnesses informed us that the Confederation is recognised by the Government as the mouthpiece of the employers on all matters affecting the latter’s industrial relations to their workpeople ; and that it nominates each year, on the invitation of Your Majesty ’s Government, the delegate and technical advisers to represent British employers at the International Labour Conference at Geneva held under Part XIII of the Treaty of Peace. | 146. From this organisation, as will be seen from the evidence, we have received the strongest representations that industry

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