MR BEVAN NOT TO RESIGN
(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON. April 11. The Minister of Labour (Mr Aneurin Bevan) told a private Labour Party meeting to-day that he wag not resigning over the issue of the Budget charge for teeth and spectacles under the National Health Scheme.
Mr Bevan was quoted in two newspapers this morning as saying a weak ago that he would never be a member of a Government which made charges under the National Health Scheme.
The “Daily Telegraph" sa- s that the Budget’s Health Service imposts mean that the public will now pay about £4 10s for a full set of dentures and between £1 3s and £1 15s for a pair of spectacles, which, hitherto, were free.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26395, 13 April 1951, Page 7
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