§ 25. Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyreasked the Minister of Health what reasons prompted him to adopt the policy set out in Health Circular, E.C.L. 6/51, dated 11th January, 1951, for the purpose in eliminating inflation in doctors' records.
§ Mr. MarquandThe present inflation makes it impossible accurately to assess the total amount of remuneration due to general practitioners or to distribute this remuneration equitably as between one doctor and another.
§ Colonel Crosthwaite-EyreWhy has the Minister adopted this method? Does he realise that in Hampshire alone 26 lorry loads of documents have to be moved from the food offices to the executive council offices and that neither has enough staff to deal with them? Why could he not have put a simple question in the forthcoming Census which would have given him all the information he needed?
§ Mr. MarquandPossibly because the hon. and gallant Gentleman did not make that suggestion in time.
§ Lieut-Commander Gurney BraithwaiteWill this circular do anything to eliminate the inflationary records of the Minister of Local Government and Planning?