§ 1. Mr. Iremongerasked the Minister of Social Security if she will refer to the National Insurance Advisory Council the question of the eligibility of insured persons for benefit when travelling abroad as treatment, as distinct from travelling abroad for treatment.
§ Miss HerbisonIt is not possible to impose the normal checks on incapacity for work while a person is abroad, and it is by no means easy to define the circumstances in which those checks might be dispensed with, if abuse is to be prevented. I am considering the matter, however.