§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the need to reduce public expenditure and conserve manpower, he will consider making a grant to deaf persons who are in need of aids to hearing, enabling them to obtain reliable proprietary aids instead of setting up a new organisation for their manufacture and distribution; and whether he will permit the British hearing aid industry to submit a scheme which they have prepared and which is likely to meet the needs of the deaf public in a satisfactory manner and at a saving in manpower and money.
§ Mr. BevanNo. I am satisfied that the public interest will best be served by adhering to the policy already adopted of producing and supplying the new aid devised by the Medical Research Council and Post Office Research Department.