§ 42. Mr. Pavittasked the Minister of Health if he now proposes to raise the grant for a trainee assistant in general practice from £775 to £1,150; and when an announcement about this matter may be expected.
§ Mr. Walker-SmithFull acceptance of the Report of the Royal Commission on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration includes acceptance of this recommendation. Discussions with the medical profession on the Government's offer to implement the Report as a whole as it stands are in progress and I am not yet able to answer the last part of the Question.
§ 43. Mr. Pavittasked the Minister of Health the present average salary paid to an assistant in general practice; what he estimates this will be if the recommendations of the Pilkington Report are operated; and what steps he proposes to take to persuade employing doctors to implement these recommendations.
§ Mr. Walker-SmithI have no information about the present average salary of assistants in general practice. Their conditions of employment are arranged by private contract between the principal and the assistant and the Royal Commission recommended that this arrangement should continue. The last part of the Question does not, therefore, arise.