§ Mr. Alexander W. Lyonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will introduce legislation to require doctors acting as delegated medical practitioners of the Attendance Allowance Board to give full reasons for their decisions and, in particular, to prevent their importation of the word "ordinarily" into the statutory requirement of
frequent attention throughout the day and prolonged or repeated attention during the night".
§ Mr. DeanNo. Regulations already provide that reasons must be given for any determination on review; if the reasons are inadequate this constitutes an error in law, and determinations have been set aside by National Insurance Commissioners on that ground. It is for the Attendance Allowance Board to direct its delegates as to the way in which reasons for determinations are worded, in the light of commissioners' decisions.