§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will examine the possibility of making it a condition of a pharmaceutical company receiving a contract to supply drugs to the National Health Service that, in the event of that company paying any compensation for drug damage, British citizens would receive equal treatment.
§ Mr. NewtonCompensation questions fall to be determined between the parties or failing that by the courts in the light of the circumstances of the case. We have no plans to associate compensation arrangements with the supply of medicines to the NHS.