HC Deb 06 July 1950 vol 477 c610
2. Mr. Storey

asked the Minister of Health if he has considered the report of the West Manchester Hospital Management Committee upon their transport scheme for industrial workers attending the hospital out-patients department; and whether in view of the saving of manhours to industry achieved, he proposes to extend the experiment to other areas.

Mr. Bevan

I am arranging for a report on this scheme to ascertain whether equal savings could be secured by other means.

Mr. Storey

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this decision will give great encouragement to people interested in the scheme which, by the co-operation of management committees, local authorities and industry, has saved 6,000 industrial man-hours?

Mr. Bevan

This is a very imaginative and enterprising scheme by the local people responsible, and I am examining it with very great interest.