HC Deb 24 October 1912 vol 42 cc2377-8
72. Sir EDWARD COATES

asked whether insurance inspectors have the right to enter private houses; and, if so, what assurance the householder has that persons representing themselves to be in spectors are not in reality unauthorised persons desiring to enter for unlawful purposes?

Mr. MASTERMAN

Health Insurance inspectors have no power under the National Insurance Act to demand entrance to any private dwelling house which is not a workshop. Every inspector is furnished with a warrant which he must produce when asked, as evidence of his authority, and any person suspected of falsely claiming to be a Health Insurance inspector should be asked to produce this warrant.