§ 32. Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will consider his decision not to reconstitute the Standing Joint Committees on the Classification of Proprietary Medicines in view 39W of the fact that there has been the greatest increase in the cost of the pharmaceutical services in any year since the National Health Service started.
§ Sir K. JosephNo. This committee was concerned with the comparative efficacy of drugs and not with their cost.