HC Deb 01 July 1914 vol 64 cc348-9
40. Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE

asked the hon. Member for St. George's-in-the-East, as representing the Insurance Commissioners, whether his attention has been called to the case of Miss Deborah Hart, of Belgrave Road, Abbey Road, N.W., whose transfer from one doctor to another has taken three months to complete; whether he will make inquiries into the matter and ascertain how the delay occurred; whether he is aware that information was given to the chief insurance commissioner on the 3rd June that the formalities of transferring the insured person, with the requisite consents, from the list of the one doctor to the other, had been completed and that the case was finally and satisfactorily disposed of, whereas a letter was received by the hon. Member for Devonport from the clerk of the insurance committee for the county of London on the 26th June stating that the transfer of this insured person had only that day been completed; can he explain how this incorrect information came to be supplied, and what was the reason of the delay?

Mr. BENN

My right hon. Friend has made inquiry into this case and he is informed that a full statement in regard to it has been furnished to the hon. Member by the London Insurance Committee. I may add that pending the completion of the transfer the insured person was able to obtain, and in fact obtained, the treatment which she required.

Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE

Will the hon. Gentleman allow me to say—

Mr. SPEAKER

Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will put his statement in writing.