A preparatory conference of officials, representing the Governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Eire and Southern Rhodesia, with an observer from Burma, sat in London last month to examine the principles on which reciprocity in the field of social insurance might be based. I am glad to say that the conference was able to frame a unanimous report. This will be submitted to the Governments concerned, and will, I hope, provide a basis for the consideration, in due course, of agreements for reciprocity between individual countries whose social service schemes have the necessary common ground for such arrangements.