§ Major Symondsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why alien doctors, who have British medical qualifications and are on the permanent medical register, have to apply to his Department for permission to take up any new appointment, whether permanent or temporary, whereas, alien doctors on the temporary medical register can move from appointment to appointment without such permission; and if he is aware that alien doctors on the permanent medical register are handicapped, compared with those on the temporary register, in obtaining new appointments because of the long delay in dealing with their applications.
§ Mr. EdeAlien doctors on the permanent medical register require permission to take a new appointment only if their stay here is subject to conditions requiring them to apply to my Development for such permission. The supervision of the work undertaken by alien doctors who are only temporally registered, however, has been entrusted to the Central Medical War Committee.