§ Mr. Fisherasked the Minister of Health if he will estimate the extra cost to the National Health Service of prescriptions, since the prescription charges were abolished, of the heavier incidence of sickness in 1965, the use of more powerful but more costly drugs, the increase in the population and in the proportion of the elderly, respectively.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonIt is impossible to quantify the effect of these various factors.