NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (BENEFITS EXPENDITURE).

HC Deb 21 February 1939 vol 344 c224W

Mr. G. Hall

asked the Minister of Health whether he will give the expenditure on different forms of benefit under the National Health Insurance Acts, such as sickness benefit and medical benefit, for the last complete available year?

Mr. Bernays

The expenditure in Great Britain on the several benefits under the National Health Insurance Act during the year 1937 was approximately as follows:

	£
Sickness Benefit	11,537,000
Disablement Benefit	6,451,000
Maternity Benefit	1,689,000
Medical Benefit	11,367,000
Additional (treatment) Benefits	2,926,000