asked the Secretary to the Treasury, whether, in view of the fact that the existing insurance committee for the city of York is merely provisional, and that it includes persons not resident in York and not able to attend except occasionally, and is in other respects incompletely constituted, he will take steps to ensure that a properly-constituted insurance committee shall be established in York, in accordance with the National Insurance Act, at an early date?

The answer is in the affirmative, and the new committee will be appointed as speedily as possible.

Can the right hon. Gentleman fix any approximate date for the appointments?

I think the committee has to be appointed before July. I hope it will be appointed at a considerably earlier date.

Will it not be necessary to accelerate the appointments?

That is largely a matter of the registration of insured persons who will have some voice in connection with the choice of the new committee.