§ Mr. DAYasked the Minister of Health the number of persons in receipt of relief in the (Borough of Southwark during each of the months of this present year; and corresponding figures for the same months during 1927, giving particulars of the various categories?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe following table gives the desired information:
detrimentally affected by the exclusion of a chairman, whether he will appoint one of their present number chairman.
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe status and functions of the Welsh Board of Health are not, in my view, affected by the decision not to appoint a chairman. The bulk of the work of the Board is 717W satisfactorily done by the members of the Board in their individual capacity, and meetings of the Board are but rarely held. The answer to the last part of the question is in the negative.
Captain EVANSasked the Minister of Health if he will consider the advisability of appointing one of the present reduced Welsh Board of Health a member of the joint consultative committee of the United Kingdom, instead of appointing a deputy for a representative whose official connection with the Welsh Board of Health has now terminated?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINMy hon. Friend appears to be under some misapprehension. The hon. Member for Monmouth, who is and has for some years been the Welsh, representative on the National Health Insurance Joint Committee, is not in any way officially connected with the Welsh Board of Health. The retiring chairman of the Welsh Board of Health was appointed to act as deputy to the hon. Member for Monmouth at meetings of the Committee at which the hon. Member was unable to attend, and I have now appointed a member of the Welsh Board of Health to act in the same capacity.