§ Sir P. Hurdasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he can give a complete list of the health services which come under preferential treatment, all run by various Departments of the Government, and would come under the Beveridge proposals, showing the medical and nursing personnel and the cost for each Department?
§ Mr. AsshetonThe following Departments provide medical services for their staffs, the numbers of medical and associated personnel and the estimated cost being as under:
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Department. Personnel. Cost £ Admiralty … 99 43,000 Ministry of Supply … 765 210,000 Customs and Excise … 2 1,265 Inland Revenue … 4 750 Ordnance Survey … 1 250 Post Office … 25 12,275 In addition about £65,000 is expended by the Post Office in respect of similar services to some 2,600 local medical advisers.
The following Departments have medical services for the purpose of fulfilling their administrative functions, the numbers of medical and associated personnel and the estimated cost being as under:
Department. Personnel. Cost £ Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. 25 10,100 Prison Service, England and Wales. 141 56,820 Supreme Court of Judicature 2 3,300 Prison Service, Scotland 14 3,340 Board of Control 427 104,000 Ministry of Pensions 1,276 305,885 Board of Education 8 8,140 Scottish Educatin Dept 1 1,100 Ministry of War Transport 2 1,700 Ministry of Health 162 138,586 Welsh Board of Health 9 10,370 Dept. of Health for Scotland 39 34,266 Ministry of Labour and Natinal Service. 14 14,032 India Office 3 1,750 Colonial Office 2 2,350 Ministry of Fuel and Power 10 9,000 It is not possible to say how these services might be affected by the Beveridge proposals.