§ Captain C. S. Taylorasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware of the anomalous conditions existing amongst the officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps, in that certain officers of the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers have been appointed to a military hospital in their own district, with field rank, and are continuing their private practices in addition to performing their military duties, while other medical men of some years professional seniority and with higher professional qualifications have 786W particularly of long-distance traffic, to alternative means of transport.
As regards the second part of the Question, I can assure the hon. Member that while the primary consideration must be to use the fuel available for the most essential transport needs, the Regional Transport Commissioners do have regard to the desires and needs of manufacturers and, wherever possible, to the interests of existing providers of transport.