43. Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTTasked the Comptroller of the Household, as representing the National Health Insurance Commissioners, whether he is aware of the confusion which arises in approved societies through members failing to notify their society that they have been enlisted in the Army; and whether he will approach the military authorities with a view to securing that in future all men on joining the Army should be required to produce their insurance cards and that these cards should be collected and returned to the central offices of the respective societies
§ Mr. C. ROBERTS (Comptroller of the Household)Arrangements have been made with the Army Council under which every insured person on being called to the Colours is to be given by the military authorities a printed postcard showing his regimental particulars and the date of the beginning of his service; he is instructed to forward the postcard to his approved society or, if he is not a member of a society, to the Insurance Commissioners. He is also instructed to forward to his 891 society any stamped contribution card in his possession at the time of being called up.