§ Mr. LANE-FOXasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the regulations of the West Riding Insurance Committee, by which a doctor doing his own dispensing in a rural area has to make out in triplicate all prescriptions, and has to work out from the official tariff the exact cost of all items in them without any payment for the labour involved, have his sanction; whether the official tariff gives prices for drugs, dressings, etc., which are considerably below the prices at which doctors can obtain them, though they may be those at which they are supplied to large wholesale chemists; and why no answer to these simple questions, beyond a printed acknowledgment, has yet been received by the doctors in the Wetherby district, though the questions were addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 15th January?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe letters received from the doctors referred to raised questions of a somewhat complex character, depending not only upon the Regulations, but also upon the policy of the West Riding Insurance Committee. The720W Commissioners are communicating with the insurance committee, and a full reply will be sent to the doctors as soon as possible.