§ Captain Bullockasked the Minister of Health whether he will reconsider the present arrangements relating to men who are discharged from the Army suffering from tuberculosis so as to ensure that such institutional treatment as they may from time to time require should always be a charge upon the State.
§ Mr. BevanThe responsibility for treatment of tuberculosis rests upon local authorities. Where the Ministry of Pensions accepts a case of tuberculosis in a man discharged from the Army as attributable to or aggravatd by war service, payment is made by that Department to the local authority concerned at an agreed capitation rate in respect of approved cases of institutional treatment. In any other case the cost of such treatment is borne by the local authority's tuberculosis service, which attracts Exchequer grants.