§ Sir K. WOODasked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that the number of patients at the Burnham-on-Crouch Orthopædic Clinic has during the past six months fallen below six; whether the clinic is used for other and private purposes; if so, whether such user has been sanctioned by the Minister; whether 728W the same would be made available by the Minister to the other medical men in Burnham if application were made therefor; and whether he will consider the desirability of closing the clinic, in view of the necessity for the utilisation of the premises as a local hospital for Burnham and its neighbourhood?
§ Major TRYONThere are at present four pensioners under treatment at the clinic referred to at the cost of the Ministry. The clinic is, however, not a Ministry institution, but is under the control of the British Red Cross Society. I am not, therefore, in a position to give the information asked for in other parts of the question.