13. Mr. F. HALL (Dulwich)asked the hon. Member for St. George's-in-the-East as representing the Insurance Commissioners, if his attention has been called to the number of cases in which contributors under the National Insurance Act have been unable, even in urgent cases, to get prescriptions made up on Sundays and on early closing days; and if it would be practicable to make some arrangements to provide for doctors on the panel furnishing medicine in urgent cases when a chemist is not readily available?
§ Mr. W. BENNThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. With regard to the latter part of the question the regulations already provide for the doctors themselves dispensing in circumstances such as those referred to, and arrangements have been made by insurance committees accordingly. If, however, the hon. Member will furnish particulars of any case which he has in mind, I will make inquiries.