§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in view of the fact that under Section 7 of the Medical Act of 1886, the representation of medical practitioners on the Medical Council is confined to three representatives for England, one for Scotland, and one for 851 Ireland, and that during the interval of nineteen years medical practitioners have increased in number in England alone by 7,000. will he state whether the Medical Council have considered, the expediency of representing to the Privy Council the desirability of increasing the number of representatives of medical practitioners on the Medical Council as provided for under Section 10, Sub-section (c), of the Medical Act.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) I am informed that this question was considered by the General Medical Council last month, and on no less than six other occasions during the previous fifteen years, but that each time the decision of the council has been that it is inexpedient to make any representation to the Privy Council.