§ 15. Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will have a departmental examination of the prices paid by the National Health Service for an iron deficiency drug, details of which have been sent to him, manufactured by two British companies who have been charged in a United States Government anti-trust suit with having too tight a grip on the manufacture and sale of their products.
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§ Mr. CrossmanThe price satisfies the provisions of the current Voluntary Price Regulation Scheme and will in due course be examined under new arrangements recently agreed with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. The American litigation relates to matters that have no bearing on the price to the National Health Service and no special examination is called for on this account.