HC Deb 08 December 1943 vol 395 c961
38. Dr. Morgan

asked the Postmaster-General whether Dr. Basil Steele of Regent's Park receives any remuneration from his Department as surgeon, London Post Office Corps, St. John Ambulance Brigade; was this appointment made or approved by his Department; whether he is aware that as this doctor is in medical partnership with his brother, Dr. Russell Steele, a local post office doctor, he frequently has to attend Post Office employees under the Post Office medical arrangements; and, in view of his publicly expressed anti-semitic views, whether he will reconsider the desirability of making alternative medical arrangements for Jewish postal employees in this district?

The Postmaster-General (Captain Crookshank)

The answers to the first two and the last parts of the Question are in the negative. Dr. Basil Steele deals with Post Office cases only when Dr. Russell Steele is unavoidably absent.

Dr. Morgan

Will the right hon. and gallant Gentleman answer the last part of the Question?

Captain Crookshank

I did. I said it was in the negative.

Dr. Morgan

Is it proposed to make a new arrangement to allow Jewish employees to have alternative arrangements?

Captain Crookshank

There is no necessity for that.