asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if a person involved in a stoppage of work in consequence of a trade dispute, and who is sentenced to a term of imprisonment for an offence committed before the commencement of the trade dispute, will be treated as a striker or a prisoner for the purpose of payments of supplementary benefit in respect of dependants under the proposals announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 26 March, Official Report, columns 1462–3.

Such a person would be treated for supplementary benefit purposes as a striker while without employment due to a trade dispute and as a prisoner while in custody.