Mr. WEST RUSSELLasked the Minister of Health whether the records of sickness as reported under the National Insurance Acts show any increase and, if so, to what extent, in the Tyneside area in each of the last six months?
§ Miss LAWRENCEOn the general question I would refer the hon. Member to the recent report of the Government actuary on the subject (Cm. 3548) and to the statement which my right hon. Friend made on 29th April, 1930, in the course of the debate in Committee on the Ministry of Health Estimates. As approved societies are not ordinarily organised on a territorial basis, statistics are not available with regard to the incidence of claims for benefit in any particular area.