§ Sir CHARLES HUNTERasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if the older members of small dividing societies which cannot be recognised as approved societies because of the deficiency of numbers will have no option but to become Post Office contributors?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEA member of a dividing society which has not the necessary numbers to qualify as an approved society and which neither obtains enough additional members nor decides to federate with other societies for the purpose of the National Health Insurance, will have the same opportunities of joining an approved society as any one who is not at present a member of any society at all. An approved society cannot exclude an insured person from membership on the ground of age, and the system of reverse-values is so framed that a society will have the same inducement to admit the old as the young to membership.