It was Sir Alfred Mond who passed this Emergency Provisions Act, by which he met a Temporary Financial Crisis.

Do the Government still maintain that the film industry is in a state of Temporary Financial Crisis?

One of the tragedies, I feel, of the present situation is that when an employee has accumulated premiums for quite a considerable time, there is a temptation, particularly in moments of financial stress, for him to take the benefits which have accumulated in a lump sum to deal with the passing, Temporary Financial Crisis.

Within one year of carrying through the Local Government, Planning and Land Act, which produced a major change in the relationship between Government and local authorities, the Government have now, in effect, admitted the failure of the Act and are proposing a yet more fundamental constitutional change, all to meet a Temporary Financial Crisis that is of the Government's own making.