Written Answers
China And Japan
asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make in respect to the situation in China?
I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave yesterday to the hon. Member for Wentworth (Mr. Paling), to which I have nothing to add.
National Health Insurance (Medical Treatment)
asked the Minister of Health whether he will state the number of medical practitioners undertaking National Health Insurance work in this country at the latest convenient date; and the total amounts paid for such services out of National Health Insurance funds for the year to date?
The number of medical practitioners under agreement with Insurance Committees in England and Wales on the 1st January, 1937, was 16,812, and the total amount paid to them from National Health Insurance funds in respect of the year 1937 was £8,050,108.
Unemployment (Winter Allowances)
asked the Minister of Labour what steps the Unemployment Assistance Board have taken to enable applicants for
| Highway Expenditure charged against the Road Fund. | ||||||||
| County. | 1930–31. | 1931–32. | 1932–33. | 1933–34. | 1934–35. | 1935–36. | 1936–37. | |
| Argyll | … | 67,530 | 133,011 | 168,665 | 149,795 | 143,901 | 156,495 | 95,334 |
| Caithness | … | 19,029 | 47,485 | 89,950 | 51,344 | 26,326 | 31,148 | 32,350 |
| Inverness | … | 148,203 | 339,765 | 275,841 | 213,526 | 134,776 | 63,633 | 51,578 |
| Orkney | … | 9,969 | 10,216 | 12,318 | 14,147 | 10,086 | 18,376 | 43,070 |
| Ross and Cromarty | … | 41,222 | 82,500 | 47,044 | 48,795 | 44,709 | 32,777 | 50,952 |
| Sutherland | … | 28,037 | 51,407 | 84,041 | 40,972 | 30,295 | 17,802 | 14,637 |
| Zetland | … | 7,573 | 10,042 | 7,674 | 9,427 | 9,680 | 13,266 | 19,955 |
| Figures for 1937–38 are not yet available. | ||||||||
allowances to meet the additional cost of living during the winter months?
The Unemployment Assistance Board inform my right hon. Friend that under the Unemployment Assistance (Winter Adjustments) Regulations, 1938, temporary additions will be made to allowances in appropriate cases for the pay weeks ending in the period from 14th November, 1938, to 15th April, 1939, inclusive. As explained to the House in the course of the Debate on 18th July last, the administration will proceed on the same general lines as were followed in making the special adjustments last winter, and the necessary review of cases on this basis is now proceeding. A copy of the Board's Instruction to their Officers has been placed in the Library.
Road Fund Expenditure (Scotland)
asked the Minister of Transport whether he will state the amount of money from the Road Fund spent in each of the years from 1930 to 1937–38 in each of the counties of Ross, Inverness, Sutherland, Caithness, Orkney, Shetland, and Argyll?
Following is the answer: