§ LADY RUTHVEN OF FREELANDasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will make a Statement on the Report of the Committee on Nursing.
§ LORD ABERDAREThe Report has been published as Cmnd. 5115, and copies are available in the Printed Paper Office. My right honourable friends the Secretaries of State for Social Services, Scotland and Wales are most grateful to Professor Asa Briggs and his colleagues for their comprehensive and penetrating study of the matters referred to them. They are giving careful and urgent consideration to the important and far-reaching recommendations contained in the Report and are inviting a number of interested organisations to submit comments. They would also welcome comments submitted within the next three months from any organisations not specifically invited to comment but wishing to do so.
House adjourned at twenty-six minutes past ten o'clock.