§ Viscount WOLMERasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the health committees to be constituted under the National Insurance Bill will have power to purchase drugs wholesale to supply doctors and patients; and, if so, what provision will be made for t hose chemists who will thereby be ruined?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEThe health committees and approved societies retain under the Bill the same freedom as friendly societies at present have in regard to the supply of drugs. I believe the chemists must necessarily profit largely by the provisions of the Bill.
§ Viscount WOLMERasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the health committees to be constituted under the National Insurance Bill will have power 849W to purchase and destroy cows affected with tuberculosis?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEThe answer is in the negative.