§ 73. Mr. PETOasked the Comptroller of the Household, as representing the National Health Insurance Commissioners, whether his attention has been called to the last annual Report of the United Patriots' National Benefit Society (Approved Society No. 185); whether he is aware that in it they state that they have arrived at solvency by depriving their old members of the benefit after they reach the age of seventy; whether the National Insurance 869 Commissioners exercise any control to see that poor people are not robbed of the benefit for which they have been subscribing for forty years; whether the method adopted by the United Patriots' National Benefit Society of balancing their accounts has the sanction of the Commissioners; and whether he proposes to take any steps in the matter?
§ Mr. CHARLES ROBERTS (Comptroller of the Household)The matter to which the hon. Member refers has no connection with the work of the society as an approved society under the National Insurance Acts, but relates to the private side of the society, over which the Insurance Commissioners have no control.