asked the Minister of Health how frequently his regulations permit persons who have obtained spectacles under the National Health Scheme to have them replaced.

As often as a sight test under the service shows that different lenses are clinically necessary. New frames are supplied only if the original ones cannot be re-used.

May 1 ask the Minister whether he will make inquiries. in a selected number of cases, to see how many spectacles are now in the possession of pawnbrokers?

I think that in view of the policy of the Labour Government there are no pawnbrokers to take in the spectacles.

As I do not understand the answer, may I again ask the Minister whether he will make inquiries?

I cannot make inquiries from non-existent pawnbrokers