§ 5. Mr. Liptonasked the Minister of Health whether he now proposes to introduce legislation to enable private patients to obtain medicines by prescription under the National Health Service.
§ Mr. Walker-SmithI have nothing to add at present to my replies to recent Questions on this subject, including my reply of November last to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Arundel and Shoreham (Captain Kerby).
§ Mr. LiptonI thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for that reply and express the hope that he will continue successfully to resist the misguided efforts of 178 of his hon. Friends to introduce this undesirable change into the National Health Service.
§ Mr. Walker-SmithThe hon. Member is straying into the realms of the hypothetical and imaginative. I will content myself with the answer that I have already given.