I know this case only from what I have heard tonight in the House. I speak as one who for many years, certainly 30 years, was medical adviser, for example, to the Union of Post Office Workers which kept me in constant touch with the Post Office as an employer. Time and time again when men were about to lose their employment because of a disease or an alleged difficulty we managed, by having the case vetted, either by a medical adviser to the union or some consultant—in London a London specialist, or in Manchester a Manchester specialist, or an appropriate specialist within the vicinity of the man's work or his home—to save many a man's employment.

Apart from that, even if the Government employer would probably have won a case if it had been taken to court, it was found that the Department preferred to act as a good employer and retain the man in his employment so that he did not lose his pension and other advantages which he gained through his employment. Having heard what has been said tonight and having had that experience, I should like to look at this case. However, at my great age of nearly 70 I am no longer employed by this particular union which employed me for nearly 40 years when I won many cases, and I am still winning them. This is a speciality which very few doctors care to take up. They do not like fighting cases with employers to save men's employment, or to give a diagnosis or a prognosis that may be later reversed. The Ministry of Pensions constantly has that difficulty.

Having heard about the case, I should like to take an interest in it, if I may be allowed to do so, and see whether it can be handled in a different way, either by one like myself with experience of handling these cases with the Government, or by passing it to an appropriate specialist. No success could be guaranteed, but we can say from our experience of dealing with many of these cases over a period of nearly 30 years that something might be done. No guarantee can be given. It depends on the medical details of the case, but there might be a legal or medical loophole and some success might be secured in a case of this kind.