§ Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOKasked the Minister of Health if he will 684W state the reason for the stoppage of payments under the National Health Insurance Act to William Stroud of Silchester Common, Hampshire; and why this man, who is suffering from cardiac disease, the doctors having certified that there is small hope of his ever again being fit for work, has been placed on the panel, in spite of the fact that weekly certificates have been passed to him.
§ Sir ALFRED MONDI have communicated with the Approved Society of which Mr. Stroud is a member, and am informed that he received health insurance benefit from the Society up the 3rd June last, on which date he surrendered a final Medical Certificate stating that he was no longer incapable of work; that he claimed and obtained unemployment benefit from that date until the end of September, when he again made a claim for health insurance benefit. The Society is not satisfied from the information in its possession that the member is in fact again incapable of work and it has referred the case to a Medical Referee. The claim for benefit will be further considered by the Society on the receipt of the Medical Referee's Report.