§ Mr. Harperasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will instruct the General Nursing Council, on receipt of a letter forwarded to him by the hon. Member for Pontefract, that questionnaires to nursing students, taking their 549W final examinations, asking them to give details of their religion and political party membership must stop forthwith, and questionnaires already completed must be destroyed immediately.
§ Sir K. JosephThe General Nursing Council is an independent statutory body including elected members of the nursing profession and is not subject to my direction but no doubt they will take note of the views which have been expressed in the profession and elsewhere about the questionnaire.