§ MR. STEADMAN (Tower Hamlets, Stepney)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether, in cases in which there is not a sufficient number of men employed in a post office to justify the appointment of a departmental medical officer, he is prepared to pay direct to individual men the allowance of 8s. 6d. per year granted in respect of postal employees in larger centres for medical attendance?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. R. W. HANBURY,) PrestonThe Postmaster-General has no power to comply with this request. In no case is the payment made, as the honourable Member suggests, to the men themselves.
§ MR. STEADMANIs it not possible to make it?
§ MR. HANBURYIt is quite impossible as the law now stands.