§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Minister of Health whether he will explain in the forthcoming White Paper that the scope of the discussions he has been conducting with the representative committee set up by certain professional organisations to consider with him future medical practice was limited throughout by the stipulation that negotiations must be based on the acceptance of the decision taken by the Cabinet that a unified health service covering 100 per cent. of the population would be instituted, and that its local administration would be in the hands of local authorities under the ultimate control of a Minister who would be responsible to Parliament?
§ Mr. E. BrownWhile I cannot accept all the implications of the Question, I agree that the proposed White Paper reviewing this subject should make clear what preliminary steps (including discussions with the medical profession and others) had already been taken, and in what circumstances.