§ Sir HILDRED CARLILEasked the President of the Local Government Board how many beds were required to provide sanatorium accommodation for insured persons, for the dependants of insured persons, for Poor Law cases, for poor persons who are not insured but who cannot afford to pay for themselves, and for children; and how many permanent beds for each of these categories of persons have so far been provided?
§ Mr. BURNSI would refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave to the hon. Member for Plymouth on the 28th November, and to the hon. Member for the Leominster Division on the 3rd December. It is not possible to give any precise estimate of the number of sanatorium beds required for each of the several classes of persons named in the question. The total number of beds in the institutions which have already been approved under the National Insurance Act is 6,240.