Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSONasked the Minister of Health if he can make any announcement about the proposed extension of medical benefit under the National Insurance (Health) Acts?
§ Major ASTORThe question of what changes, if any, in the existing medical benefit under the Insurance Acts will be proposed for 1920 is not yet decided. Various improvements in the conditions of service and the possible establishment of some of the additional matters that were suggested in the Estimates of 1914 have been under consideration at the Ministry and in conference with the practitioners, and will be further discussed with the new consultative councils, with the insurance committees, and with approved societies. But these matters are not yet in a sufficiently advanced state to admit of any precise statement from me to-day.