§ 88. Mr. F. Noel-Bakerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the potentially dangerous drugs listed as undesirable for sale to the public without a doctor's prescription in the report which the Medical Panel of the Advertising Inquiry Committee presented to the Minister of Health on 12th May, 1959, are included in the recent report of the Poisons Board; and how many of these the Board recommends as undesirable for sale to the general public without a doctor's prescription.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerOf the fifteen substances mentioned in the Panel's report, ten are among those which the Poisons Board have recommended should not be supplied without a prescription.
§ 91. Mr. F. Noel-Bakerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recommendations, other than that concerning Preludin, the Poisons Board have made to him on matters arising from the Interim Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Drug Addiction; and what action he proposes to take on them.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerThe only recommendation that the Poisons Board have 79W made on a matter arising from the Interim Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Drug Addiction is that mentioned in the Answer that I gave on 4th February to a Question by the hon. Member for Brixton (Mr. Lipton). A list of the substances, besides Preludin, to which the recommendation relates was contained in the Answer given on 11th February to a Question by the hon. Member for Dartford (Mr. Dodds).