§ Mr. KennedyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if, pursuant to his reply of 15 January to the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes),Official Report, column 87, he will now place in the Library full details of the questions and sample questionnaires being circulated for the purposes of drawing up a survey of the level of eye tests for the first quarter of 1990; if he will indicate to whom such details are being circulated; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyA sight test volume survey is being conducted by NOP Market Research Limited as part of its regular omnibus survey. The field work will be carried out between mid-March and mid-April. It will involve a random sample of 10,000 adults being asked the following questions
- "i. Have you had your sight tested at an opticians—not at a hospital or at your doctors—since Christmas? and if yes,
- ii. Was it an NHS sight test or did you pay for a private sight test?"