§ Mr. Pavittasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many brochures relating to the special health insurance schemes for civil servants now offered by the Western Provident Association, and Private Patients Plan and the British United Provident Association were distributed; if he will estimate the additional costs for this service which were met by his Department; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. HayhoeEach of the companies supplied some 700,000 leaflets, enough for a copy of each leaflet to be distributed to every civil servant. These leaflets were delivered by the companies to locations convenient for employing Departments for distribution through Departments' internal messenger services. The cost of producing and delivering the leaflets to Departments was met by the medical insurance companies. No indentifiable additional cost to the Chancellor's departments arose from use of existing messenger services for internal distribution of the leaflets.