§ Mr. Patrick Jenkinasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) whether he intends retrospectively to disallow claims for reimbursement of the costs incurred by general practitioners in 611W making private pension arrangements for ancillary staff; and, if so, upon what principles such retrospective disallowance will be based;
(2) why, having agreed last November that he would from April 1978 reimburse to general practitioners the cost of contributions to private pensions for ancillary staff, he first set a deadline that such schemes must be in being at 1st April 1978, then proposed a retrospective deadline of 1st January 1978, and finally set a deadline of Monday 6th March; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. EnnalsI would refer the right hon. Gentleman to the reply my hon. Friend gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Sowerby (Mr. Madden) on 13th March.—[Vol. 946, c.51–4.]