asked the Minister of Health the correct procedure for appealing against decisions by his Department in respect of the award of invalid tricycles.

There is no formal procedure, but representations made to my local appliance centre or to the appliances division at Norcross are always fully and carefully considered.

Can my right hon. Friend say whether there has been any change in this system since his Department took over the administration of these cases? Does not he think it would be advisable to have some sort of system of appeals against decisions of his Department?

There has been no change. The difficulty about having any formal system of appeals is that there is not statutory entitlement upon which we can base it. I should have thought that the present system was working pretty well. Representations can be made to the local appliance centres, and when Members of Parliament bring cases to the attention of the Parliamentary Secretary or myself, we look into them.