§ 58. Mr. Tim Rentonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what instructions he is giving to local social security offices to ensure that applications for sickness benefit are properly vetted after the new form of medical certificate comes into effect.
§ Mr. OrmeThe "doctor's statement" which family doctors will issue from October 1976 will provide the same medical evidence of incapacity for work as the "medical certificate", which it will replace. It follows that no change is contemplated in the procedure for determining entitlement to and payment of sickness benefit or in the present arrangements for vetting claims to the benefit.