§ 80. Mr. Osborneasked the Minister of Health if he is aware of the serious financial position of the 127 small district nursing associations in Lincolnshire, many of which have not enough funds to pay the midwife's salary; and if he will make a block grant immediately to the county association and so save the district nursing service from the danger of breaking up
§ Mr. BevanIt is the statutory duty of the local authority to provide a domiciliary midwifery service towards the expenses of which grant is provided for by the Mid-wives Act. Where the authority arranges for midwifery service to be provided through the agency of a nursing association they make agreed payments to that association. Accordingly if these payments are found to be insufficient the association should approach the local authority