§ Sir H. Morris-Jonesasked the Minister of Labour whether, in order to allay uncertainty amongst employers and employés and to enable others concerned to make some plans ahead, he will arrange for a medical examination of future categories of those to be called up on military service to take place as soon as practicable, and that the verdict of the medical board should be communicated to such persons as soon as possible?
§ Mr. E. BrownThe present practice is to require men to register, one age-group 59W at a time, at intervals corresponding to the demands of the armed Forces, and medical examination follows registration. A rapid acceleration of the process of medical examination would not be practicable, and in any case there seem to me to be objections to an extension of the interval between medical examination and enlistment. As regards the last part of the Question, the grade in which the man is placed by a medical board is communicated to him at the conclusion of the examination.