§ Mr. FREDERICK WHYTEasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can state the number of insurance cards which have been issued to insured persons in Scotland; the number of purely Scottish societies which have been approved under the National Insurance Act; the number of provisional insurance committees which are now fully constituted in Scotland; and the number of doctors who are now members of such committees?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe number of cards issued by the Scottish Insurance Commissioners is 2,531,404. The cards have been issued to approved societies and post offices for insured persons, and not individually to insured persons themselves. The number of purely Scottish societies which have been approved is seventy-nine. The whole of the provisional insurance committees, fifty-eight in number (thirty-one county and twenty-seven burgh) have been constituted by Orders made by the Commissioners under Section 78 of the National Insurance Act. Eighteen doctors have accepted appointment on these committees.