§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to the formation, by the British Medical Association, of a medical planning commission to consider problems of reconstruction and reorganisation in the field of medicine in the post-war area; and whether, in view of the complexity of these problems and the importance to the public as well as to the medical profession of such reorganisation, he will consider the desirability of appointing a Royal Commission to conduct this inquiry with the ultimate purpose of appointing an independent Government Commission to regulate this reorganisation, in place of an individual and unofficial medical association, whose recommendations could not command the general assent which would be accorded to a Government inquiry?
§ The Prime MinisterI am aware of this inquiry by the British Medical Association, and of similar inquiries by other bodies interested in the medical and hospital field. They will no doubt afford a useful addition to the abundant material available, in the reports of Commissions and elsewhere, when the opportunity of reconstruction comes. I do not think that the appointment of a Royal Commission would, in present circumstances, be opportune.