§ Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKEasked whether the health committees or the Commissioners will be empowered under the National Insurance Bill to direct the 1393 approved societies to defray the expenses of the conveyance of any insured person from his or her place of employment to his or her home or lodging in the case of illness, or will these expenses have to be borne by the insured person out of private funds?
Mr. McKINNON WOODThe answer to the first question is in the negative; the answer to the second is not governed by the Insurance Bill.
§ Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKECan the right hon. Gentleman tell me why the case of a person being removed from a sanatorium is covered by the Bill?
Mr. McKINNON WOODBecause in the one case you are dealing in a different part of the business with approved societies, and in the other case you are not dealing with them in the same way.
§ Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKEDoes the right hon. Gentleman mean to say that two million subjects are not at all important?