§ 145. Mr. Errollasked the Minister of Health the total number of Medresco hearing aids paid for up to March, 1951.
§ Mr. CrookshankOne hundred and eighty-nine thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.
§ 147. Mr. Chetwyndasked the Minister of Health whether he will exempt from payment for hearing aids people who have already been examined and placed on the waiting list.
§ Mr. CrookshankThere are about 100,000 outstanding applications, and I cannot undertake to exempt so large a number.
§ 148. Mr. Hargreavesasked the Minister of Health if he is aware that Mr. R. H. Watson, of 25, East Norfolk Street, Carlisle, has been waiting to be supplied with a bone-conduction hearing aid since October, 1949; and when aids of this kind will be available.
§ Mr. CrookshankI would refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Lowestoft (Mr. Edward Evans) on 29th November last.
§ 149. Mr. Hargreavesasked the Minister of Health the number of applicants waiting to be supplied with bone-conduction hearing aids; and how long such applications have been registered.
§ 155. Miss Baconasked the Minister of Health how many people are waiting for the bone-conduction type of hearing aids; and what progress is being made with the production of them.
§ Mr. CrookshankAbout 4,000 are waiting, but the actual period of waiting is not known. Clinical trials of an experimental aid are now in progress.