§ 29. Mr. Harrisonasked the Minister of Health under what particular arrangement it is possible for foreign seamen to obtain free sets of teeth and glasses under the National Health Scheme; and what the approximate estimated costs of this service will be.
§ Mr. BevanThere are no special arrangements. The Act is so framed as to cover any aliens, who while in this country can make use of all the facilities of the National Health Service like anyone else. No separate estimate of cost is therefore available.
§ Viscount HinchingbrookeCan the Minister dispose of the report which is going around that a drain on the resources of the National Health Service 1016 is taking place due to the peddling of sets of false teeth and spectacles by Lascars in the Middle East?
§ Mr. BevanI have not heard any of those rumours, and I would like to receive the information about them, if the noble Lord would be so good as to let me have it, but I expect that his sources are not very reliable.