§ 58. Viscount EDNAMasked the Minister of Labour, as representing the Ministry of Health, the present total disposable surplus of approved societies; and what grants, if any, are being made from this surplus to those hospitals which have, at considerable pecuniary loss, undertaken the treatment of their members?
§ Sir M. BARLOWThe total disposable surplus of approved societies and branches in England disclosed as the result of the first valuation was about £8,000,000, the major portion of which the members elected to take in the form of an increase of the ordinary cash benefits. Of the balance a sum of £950,596 has been allocated by certain societies for payments to hospitals and convalescent homes during the period from July, 1921, to July, 1926.