§ Mr. MILLSasked the hon. Member for St. Georgs's-in-the-East, as representing the Insurance Commissioners, whether he is aware that the Middlesex Insurance Committee have not yet paid the dispensing fees to the doctors on the panel in that county since the National Insurance Act came into operation on the 16th January, 1913; that medical men in rural districts where chemists are few have done their own dispensing at their own cost, and that these doctors have had to pay out of their own money to their druggists since January, 1913, with the result that in one case about £67 10s., representing the fee 1382W for dispensing at the rate of 2s. per head per year, is now due to one doctor in the area and larger and smaller sums to other doctors; whether he is aware that frequent applications have been made to the insurance committee for repayment without result; and what steps will he take to ensure that the Middlesex Insurance Committee will forthwith pay these long overdue accounts?
§ Mr. WEDGWOOD BENNMy right hon. Friend understands that arrangements have now been made by the Middlesex Insurance Committee for the payment of the remuneration in question for the year 1913, and for the payment of advances from time to time on account of similar remuneration for the current year.