§ Mr. WILESasked the hon. Member for St. George's-in-the-East if he is aware that the Insurance Commissioners have declined to allow the London Insurance Committee to supply trusses and other surgical appliances when ordered on medical advice for insured persons; and will he suggest that the Commissioners should at once sanction the supply of such appliances as and when required?
Mr. BENNThe medical and surgical appliances which may be supplied as part of medical benefits are those prescribed in the Second Schedule to the Regulations. Neither the Commissioners nor the insurance committees have any power to sanction the provision of any appliances not included in the Schedule.