§ 77. Major CHAPPLEasked the President of the Board of Education whether nurses trained in the London Hospital have been appointed to any posts under the jurisdiction of the Board?
§ Major CHAPPLEBefore asking this question, may I ask, on a point of Order, 436 why the following words were deleted from the question: "Whether he is aware that nurses at the London Hospital are taken from their training in the wards and sent out to do private nursing at the end of their second year, receiving 13s. per week, while the hospital draws not less than 29s. per week profit from their earnings; and whether he will see that no nurses are appointed from hospitals that exploit their nurses in this way"—with those words deleted the question is meaningless?
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe words were deleted because they were in the nature of giving, not asking, information to a Department which could not possibly have it, and was not responsible for it.
§ Major CHAPPLEThe point was whether, if they possessed that information in regard to the London Hospital nurses, would they not refuse to appoint nurses who were exploited in this way and who were taken from their training in the wards at the end of their second year, depriving them of the amount of training which they should get in their third year, but which was denied to them in order that they might earn money for the hospital.
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe Board of Education has no control over the training of nurses at the London or any other hospital.
§ Sir C. HENRYIs an hon. Member permitted to make statements in a question, and then repeat them, which are entirely inaccurate?
§ Mr. SPEAKERI was very anxious to satisfy the hon. Member. He was dissatisfied with the action I took. I was trying to show him the reason for the action I had taken.
§ Major CHAPPLEMay I ask the question in this form—
§ Mr. SPEAKERIn the form on the Paper.