"to authorise the making and recovery of charges in respect of certain dental and optical appliances under the National Health Service Act, 1946, and the National Health Service (Scotland) Act, 1947; to make provision for the accommodation and treatment outside Great Britain of persons suffering from respiratory tuberculosis; to remit stamp duty on receipts given in respect of such charges as aforesaid; and to amend the National Assistance Act, 1948, in relation to requirements for services under the said Acts of 1946 and 1947," presented by Mr. Marquand; supported by Mr. McNeil, Mr. Isaacs, Miss Herbison and Mr. Blenkinsop; read the First time; to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 93.]

"to provide for reducing the payments out of moneys provided by Parliament into the National Insurance Fund; for increasing the rate of widowed mothers' allowances under the National Insurance Act, 1946, and of retirement pensions under the said Act of women over the age of sixty-five and men over the age of seventy; for increasing benefits under the National Insurance Acts, 1946 to 1949, in respect of children; for increasing the amounts by which retirement pensions under the National Insurance Act, 1946, may be increased by the payment of contributions after pensionable age, for reducing the extent to which deductions from widows' benefits and retirement pensions under the said Act are to be made in respect of earnings, and for modifying the provisions of the said Act under which persons are treated as having retired; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid," presented by Dr. Summerskill; supported by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Ede, Mr. McNeil, Mr. Marquand, Mr. Isaacs and Mr. Bernard Taylor: read the First time; to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 92.]