§ Sir M. Galpernasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has imposed a ban on consultants, doctors and matrons becoming members of a hospital committee as has been done in the area controlled by the South East Metropolitan Regional Board.
§ Mr. NobleThe appointment of members to hospital boards of manage-202W ment is governed by the terms of section 11 and the Third Schedule to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act, 1947. Any such ban would be contrary to the intentions of the statute and I have imposed none.