46. Dr. DAVIESasked the Prime Minister what steps, if any, are being taken to establish a common system of costing fir the medical services of the Army, Navy and Air Force, respectively, particularly with regard to hospitals?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Arthur Michael Samuel)I have been asked to reply. Cost accounts, in a common form, have been compiled for a period of three months at one naval, one military and one Air Force hospital. Those accounts have been under the consideration of the Joint Medical Services Committee of the three Departments. But it has not yet been decided what modifications would require to be made in the common form before it would be suitable for general adoption.