HC Deb 07 May 1941 vol 371 c864W
Mr. Groves

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he is aware that the form of certificate for additional supplies of milk to persons suffering from certain diseases is objectionable, in that the doctor is required to certify the precise disease from which the person in need of the additional supply of milk is suffering, and that the certificate has to be handed to the local dairyman who, and whose employés are thereby made aware of information which should be strictly confidential; and whether he will consider withdrawing the present form at once and instituting some other procedure?

Major Lloyd George

The British Medical Association has already been consulted on the procedure to which my hon. Friend refers and the views of the Association which have recently been received are now under consideration.

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