HC Deb 18 March 1926 vol 193 cc607-8W
Mr. RHYS DAVIES

asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the notification to approved societies requiring a means test in all cases of persons in excepted employment entering after 45 years of age was preceded only by Memoranda 243/X and 291/X, November, 1925, which appeared in a very indefinite form; and whether, in view of the entry of these persons without knowledge of the conditions of entry, he will reconsider the position and withdraw the Regulation?

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN

For the reasons given in my answers to questions on this subject on the 11th instant, I do not admit that the statement in the first part of the question correctly represents the position. The answer to the second part of the question is in the negative.