§ Mr. COOPERasked the Chancellor if, in view of the fact that medical practitioners were promised one-tenth of the representation on local insurance committees in the explanatory statement (Cd. 6542) issued by the Insurance Commissioners in December last, and that up to the present they have not been permitted to take their seats, he will say when this permission will be granted?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe Commissioners are arranging for the election at the earliest possible date of direct representatives of the medical profession on the various insurance committees, and also for the appointment of medical members of the committees by the county and county borough councils, and by the Commissioners themselves. Circulars have already been issued to the county and county boroughs with regard to the appointment of medical representatives by these bodies, and the Commissioners have issued Regulations for the election of doctors by the resident medical practitioners in each area.