HC Deb 31 October 1939 vol 352 cc1773-4W
Mr. Groves

asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that many medical men appointed to the emergency medical services have been dismissed, and that those in Class G will receive, by way of compensation for such dismissal, a payment equivalent to salary at the rate of £350; and whether he will state by whom such appointments were made and give the number of medical men who are to receive such compensation and the total amount of expenditure involved?

Mr. Elliot

No medical men appointed to the Emergency Medical Service controlled by me have been dismissed, and no question of compensation therefore arises. Class G, to which the hon. Member refers, consists of resident house officers who were appointed for three months or longer, at £350 a year this being the scale of salary recommended by the Central Medical War Committee on behalf of the profession.