§ Sir K. WOODasked the Minister of Health whether he has received any representations from boards of guardians calling attention to the number of persons insured under the National Insurance Acts who are admitted to Poor Law hospitals and in respect of whom the guardians are precluded from receiving any benefit for the treatment afforded; and whether he proposes to take any action in the matter?
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§ Mr. WHEATLEYRepresentations to the effect referred to by the hon. Member have been received, but I would point out that boards of guardians have the ordinary powers of recovery of expenses incurred by them in providing treatment in a Poor Law hospital to a person insured under the National Health Insurance Acts as in the case of all other persons for whom such treatment is provided. As regards the last part of the question, I would refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave on the 20th February to the hon. Member for Shoreditch (Mr Thurtle).