QUESTIONS FOR PRIVATE MEMBERS
[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIII,--Your Parliamentary Correspondent refers to the fact that private Members get so few, chances of taking any effective part in the debates. I have often wondered why back-benchers do not make more use of questions. May give an example—and perhaps kill two birds with one stone ? If I were an M.P. I would .ask the President of the Board of Education ;
(1) Whether he is aware that in many rural areas school children are supplied by the Education Authority with raw ungraded milk ? (2) Whether it is not a fact that the weight of medical opinion is that it were better to give no milk at all than dirty raw milk from infected herds ? (3) Whether lie • is aware that in some rural districts the children are supplied with raw ungraded milk in spite of the fact that any quantity of certified milk is produced in those districts ?
(4) Whether it is not a fact that in Rotherham certified milk is supplied to school children at 4111 extra cost of two- pence per gallon ?
(5) Whether it is not the accepted view of the medical profession that in those districts where there is no pasteurized milk the children should be supplied with certified milk if it can be made available, and never with raw ungraded milk ; and that in every case the children should. be supplied with the best milk available regardless of cost, even if the extra cost
amounts to as much as twopence per child per week am, Inglewood, Wetherby, Yorks..
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