§ 60. Commander Locker-Lampsonasked the Minister of Supply whether he will take steps to ensure that penicillin when used will be available for poor patients and not only for the well-to-do.
§ The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply (Mr. Peat)With regard to the supply of penicillin, I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the reply given to the hon. Member for North-East Leeds (Mr. Craik Henderson) and the hon. and gallant Member for East Leicester (Major Lyons). on 16th December last. Before any penicillin is allotted for civilian use, which cannot be for some time yet, my right hon. Friend will consult my right hon. Friend the Minister of Health with a view to securing that it is made available for those purposes which should have priority on medical grounds.
§ Commander Locker-LampsonMay I ask to whom penicillin belongs and whether so valuable and vital a product ought not to be the property of the nation?