50. Mr. T. THOMSONasked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the recommendations of the Poor Law Commission appointed in 1905, that greater co-ordination in the administration of public services should be made, and that since then there has been a great multiplicity of further public services, he will now reconsider the desirability of appointing a Committee of Inquiry to investigate the possibility of a thorough reorganisation of all health and public welfare services, so as to secure greater efficiency and economy than prevails at present?
§ Mr. BALDWINI would ask the hon. Member to await the Report of the Committee, to which his attention has already been drawn.
Mr. THOMSONIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Committee referred to is merely a question of interdepartmental arrangements on existing legislation, and that the question suggests new legislation and the reorganisation of the whole system?
§ Mr. BALDWINI think the Report of the Departmental Committee was a very valuable step in advance.