§ 37. Mr.WORTHINGTON EVANSasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he will grant the Return standing in the name of the hon. Member for Colchester. [National Insurance Acts Medical Attendance (England, Scotland, and Wales),—Return showing the number of insured persons who, at the end of the first year after the National Insurance Act came into operation, had chosen panel doctors; the number who had chosen an approved institution; the number who had been assigned by the several insurance committees to panel doctors or to institutions; the number who had been allowed to make their own arrangements for medical treatment with doctors not on the panel; and the number who had neither chosen doctors nor institutions, nor had been assigned to doctors, nor had made their own arrangements.]
Mr. BENNFor the reasons stated in my reply to the hon. Member of the 2nd instant, which were fully discussed in Debate on the 5th instant, my right hon. Friend cannot alter his decision.
§ Mr. WORTHINGTON EVANSIs the hon. Gentleman aware that other Members of the House, including the chairman of the London Insurance Committee, desire this Return? Will he not take notice of hon. Members on his own side if he will not of Members on this?
§ Mr. WORTHINGTON EVANSIs the hon. Gentleman aware that the London Insurance Committee has the information, and can give it as regards London in two minutes, and that other insurance committees are in the same position?