HC Deb 23 May 1969 vol 784 cc164-5W
Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table showing the increases in the basic rates of war pensions and of the main supplementary benefits and allowances payable with war pensions on each occasion that they have been raised since 1946.

Mr. Ennals

The information requested is given in the following table:

nervous system, is dangerous if taken in excessive quantities. The preparation has been on the market in this country for at least nine year and has not therefore been considered by the Committee on the Safety of Drugs, whose remit is restricted to the assessment of new drugs or reformulations proposed for clinical trial or marketing after 1st January, 1964. Doctors' attention has however been drawn to the dangers inherent in the prescribing of amphetamine preparations generally. The product will in due course become subject to the provisions of the Medicines Act.