§ Sir K. WOODasked the Secretary to the Local Government Board, as representing the National Health Insurance Commissioners (1) whether the sanatorium grant, suspended by the Treasury as a war measure, is now available; what are the conditions now affecting such grant; and to whom the same would be available; and (2) whether various insurance committees have made representations that additional grants-in-aid of sanatorium benefit should be made, in order that extra nourishment might be provided for suitable domiciliary cases; and whether he proposes to take any action in the matter?
§ Major ASTORThe general position of Exchequer Grants-in-aid of the treatment of tuberculosis is receiving consideration in connection with the Estimates of the newly-formed Ministry of Health, and I am not yet in a position to make any statement on the subject.