§ Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHTasked the Minister of Health whether he has received a representative request from the National Council of Women and other societies for the publication of the Report of the Committee into the management, etc., of the London Lock Hospital appointed by the Minister of Health in 1928; and whether he will comply with this request?
§ Miss LAWRENCEThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. My hon. Friend will be aware that the Papers recently presented to Parliament give particulars of the recommendations of the Committee, and of the action taken and contemplated by the governing body of the hospital to give effect to them. It is clear that this action has improved the administration of the hospital, and that further improvements are in prospect. The statement which my right hon. Friend has received from the governing body, and published, has led him to the view that the best interest of the future of this voluntary hospital would not he served by reviving any discussion of former unsatisfactory conditions which the governing body have altered or propose to alter. It is accordingly not my right hon. Friend's intention to publish the Committee's Reports.