§ 53. Mr. BRASSEYasked the hon. Member for St. George's-in-the-East, as representing the Insurance Commissioners, whether his attention has been called to the action of the Southport and other local insurance committees in refusing to allow insured persons to make arrangements for medical treatment by herbalist practitioners notwithstanding that the approved societies to which the insured persons Belong are paying sickness benefit on the certificates of such practitioners; and what action he proposes to take in the matter?
§ Mr. W. BENNAs I have previously stated, the question of granting or refusing permission to insured persons to make their own arrangements under Section 15 (3) of the National Insurance Act, 1911, is a matter for the discretion of insurance committees, and my right hon. Friend cannot interfere in the exercise of that discretion.