13 MARCH 1971, Page 27

A share of security

Social security, redundancy payments and Wage-related unemployment benefits, as well as the Health Service that Mr Anthony Harris and the Guardian aficionados relish, are being re-examined carefully by the authorities.

About time too. There must be no ques- tion of starving strikers back to work or with- holding allowances that have been earned. There must be something wrong with a system that permitted a good lady I met last week, the wife of a director and controlling shareholder of a substantial public company, to say, `I mustn't forget the three weeks' family allowance I have to collect.'