§ Colonel RAWSONasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state how present members of friendly societies who are over sixty-five, or who are in receipt of medical benefit from their society, and do not become insured persons under the National Insurance Bill, will be able to continue to receive medical attendance after the Bill has passed, seeing that the arrangements with the doctors will now be made by the health committees and not by the societies on whom the liability for their sick members rests?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEThe local health committees will only intervene in the administration of medical benefit so far as persons insured under the Bill are concerned. Those who are insured, but not under the Bill, in societies which become approved societies will not be affected.