HC Deb 03 March 1981 vol 1000 c87W
Miss Joan Lestor

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what percentage of prescriptions dispensed cost less than £1

Sir George Young

Such information is not prepared routinely and requires a special sampling excercise.

Only when the effects of the £1 prescription charge—introduced on 1 December 1980—upon prescribing and dispensing are reflected in the data will it be worth while to cany out a special exercise to produce reliable estimates. The latest estimate of the average cost of a prescription item is £3.14.