§ Colonel GREIGasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the accumulated funds in the hands of the insurance committees in Scotland, arising from payments for medical benefit for insured persons who have not yet or do not desire to claim a panel doctor, are to be distributed among the existing panel doctors or to be otherwise applicable, and, if so, how; whether any regulation has been laid 1284W down in London or elsewhere for the application of such funds; and whether such regulation is applicable in Scotland?
§ Mr. WEDGWOOD BENNBoth in Scotland and elsewhere in Great Britain the whole of the sums available to a committee in respect of the responsibility for the treatment of those insured persons (including the persons referred to in the question) who have not been allowed or required to make their "own arrangements," and who have not yet selected an approved system or institution, are payable, under the regulations and the agreements entered into between committees and doctors, to the doctors on the panel upon whom that responsibility devolves.