§ 49. Sir John Mellorasked the Prime Minister which Ministers will be specially concerned with the preparation of the Government's proposals regarding an enlarged and unified system of social insurance, a comprehensive health service and a new scheme of workmen's compensation, respectively; and whether any particular member, or members, of the War Cabinet will specially review this work?
§ Mr. AttleeThe Ministers specially concerned with these matters are my right hon. Friends the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Minister of Labour and National Service and the Home Secretary. The Government's proposals for social security are being formulated under the direction of a Committee of Ministers; and the Minister without Portfolio has, and will continue to have, a special responsibility for co-ordinating the work involved in presenting the social insurance scheme as a whole to that Committee. As regards the last part of the Question, these are, of course, matters falling within the scope of my noble Friend the Minister of Reconstruction.