§ 56. Mr. ANDERSONasked whether medical grade No. 2 now includes the old category B 2 as well as categories B 1 and C 1?
§ Mr. BECKThe answer is in the negative. The classification by grades introduced last autumn superseded the former classification by categories. There is no precise parallel between the grades and categories. Men in category B 2 are administratively regarded as in Grade 3 until they are re-examined and graded by a National Service medical board. Thereafter they are liable to the conditions affecting the grade in which they are placed.
The standard of medical grading by National Service medical boards have not been altered. The only variation is, as I stated in answer to the hon. Member for West Leeds on the 18th April, that a slightly lower standard of vision has been adopted in accordance with the views expressed by a committee of military and civil ophthalmic specialists.