§ Mr. CURRIEasked the Comptroller of the Household, as representing the National Health Insurance Commissioners, how many appeals on points of law have been taken to the High Court in England in connection with the National Health Insurance Acts; whether, in every case, the High Court has overturned the Commissioners' decision; and whether, in view of this, he will in the new Act correct the drafting slip in the original Act which has deprived Scotland of a right of appeal to the Court of Session, or even to an inferior Court of law, in cases where legal points are involved?
§ Sir E. CORNWALL:There has been only one case in England where a decision of the Insurance Commissioners under 420W Section 67 of the National Insurance Act, 1911, has been brought under review by the High Court. In that case the decision of the Commissioners was stated in the form of a special case for the opinion of the Court. The view previously taken by the Commissioners on a difficult point of law was confirmed by the judge of the King's Bench Division, but was subsequently reversed by the Court of Appeal. Under Clause 42 of the Bill now before the House it is proposed to empower the Scottish Commissioners to state a case for the opinion of either division of the Inner House of the Court of Session