§ Mr. RostTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the 70-plus trade associations in the pharmaceutical industry referred to in a departmental letter of 6 April to the hon. Member for Erewash.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe reference is to the number of organisations that have asked to be included on the Medicines Control Agency's circulation list to receive details of any proposed changes in regulations to be made under the Medicines Act 1968. The list is as follows:
- Acupuncture Association
- Advertising Association
- Advertising Standards Authority Limited
- Agricultural Research Council
- Animal Health District Association
- Anthroposophical Medical Association
- Associated Health Foods Limited
- Association for the Advancement of British Pharmacy
- Association of Anaesthetists Great Britain and Ireland
- Association of Contact Lens Manufactuers Limited
- Association of County Councils
- Association of Independent Hospitals
- Association of Manufacturers of Medicinal Preparations
- Association of Metropolitan Authorities
- Association of Optical Practitioners
- Association of Public Analysts
- Association of Public Analysts of Scotland
- Association of Veterinarians in Industry
- Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
- BMA Belfast
- BMA Edinburgh
- Bio-Chemical Society
- British Acupuncture Association and Register
- British Aerosol Manufacturers' Association
- British Agrochemicals Association
- British Association for Chemical Specialities
- British Association of Dermatologists
- British Association of Feed Supplement Manufacturers Limited
- British Association of Pharmaceutical Physicians
- British Chemical and Dyestuffs Traders Association
- British Chiropractic Association
- British College of Optometrists
- British Committee on Natural Therapeutics
- British Contact Lens Association
- British Dental Association (Scottish Branch)
- British Dental Trade Association
- British Distributors of Animal Medicines Association
- British Herbal Medicine Association
- British Herbalists Union Limited
- British Homoeopathic Manufacturers Association
- British Institute of Regulatory Affairs
- British Insulin Manufacturers
- British Medical Association
- British Naturopathic and Osteopathic Association
- British Paediatric Association
- British Pharmacological Society
- British Poultry Federation Limited
- British Standards Institution
- British Universities Committee Ophthalmic Optics
- British Veterinary Association
- British and European Osteopathic Association "CHEMIST and DRUGGIST"
- Chiropodists Board, and Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine
- Clinical Genetics Society
- Cocoa Chocolate and Confectioners Alliance
- College of Osteopaths
- College of Osteopathy
- Company Chemist Association Limited
- Conference of Medical and Surgical Adhesive Plaster Manufacturers
- Consumer Council
- Contact Lens Study Group
208 - Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
- Coroners Society
- Cosmetic Toiletry and Perfumery Association Limited
- English National Board for Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting
- European Federation of the Contact Lens Industry Limited
- Faculty of Homoeopathy Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital
- Farmers Union of Wales
- Federation of Dressings, Plaster and Feminine Hygiene Industries
- General Council and Register of Consultant Herbalists Limited
- General Council and Register of Osteopaths
- General Dental Council
- Guild of British Dispensing Opticians
- Guild of Hospital Pharmacists
- Guild of Natural Medicine Practioners
- Health and Safety Executive
- Herb Society
- Homoeopathic Joint Committee
- Homoeopathic Research and Education Trust Homoepathic Association
- Huntingdon Research Centre
- Incorporated Society of British Advertisers Limited
- Independent Broadcasting Authority
- Independent Television Companies Association Limited
- Institute of Biology
- Institute of Chiropodists
- Institute of Packaging
- Institute of Practitioners in Advertising
- Institute of Trichologists
- Joint Consultant's Committee—BMA House
- Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
- Meat and Livestock Commission
- Medical Biology Centre
- Medical Contact Lens Association
- Medical Defence Union
- Medical Research Council "MIMS"
- Multiple Food and Drink Retailers Association
- NAFPD
- National Association of Local Councils
- National Association of Pharmaceutical Distributors
- National Biological Standards Board
- National Chamber of Trade
- National Egg Producer Retailers' Association
- National Farmers Union of Scotland
- National Farmers Union
- National Federation of Consumers Groups
- National Federation of Wholesale Grocers and Provision Merchants
- National Federation of Women's Institutes
- National Food and Drink Federation
- National Institute of Medical Herbalists
- National Office of Animal Health
- National Organisation of Animal Health
- National Pharmaceutical Association Limited
- National Union of Small Shopkeepers
- National Union of Townswomen's Guilds
- Natural Medicines Group
- Newspaper Publishers Association Limited
- Newspaper Society
- North of Ireland Veterinary Association
- Ophthalmic Group Committee—BMA House
- Osteopathic and Naturopathic Guild Limited
- Periodical Publishers Association Limited
- Pharmaceutical General Council Scotland
- Pharmaceutical Journal
- Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
- Pharmaceutical Society for Northern Ireland
- Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (Scottish Department)
- Proprietary Association of Great Britain
- Radiochemical Centre
- Register and Council of Homoepathics
- Royal College of General Practitioners
- Royal College of Midwives
- Royal College of Nursing
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
209 - Royal College of Pathologists
- Royal College of Physicians
- Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Royal College of Radiologists
- Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh
- Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Royal College of Surgeons of England—Faculty of Dental Surgery
- Royal College of Surgeons of England—Faculty of Ophthalmology
- Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Scottish Consumer Council
- Scottish Grocers' Federation
- Scottish Health Education Group
- Scottish National Committee of Ophthalmic Opticians "SCRIP"
- Service Scientifique
- Soap and Detergent Industries Association
- Society of Chiropodists
- Society of Homoepaths
- Society of Occupational Medicine
Area Local government electors Percentage increase 1975 to 1990 1975 1990 English non-metropolitan counties Buckinghamshire 351,504 475,158 35.2 Cambridgeshire 381,110 490,772 28.8 Shropshire 253,104 313,440 23.8 Berkshire 449,704 556,817 23.8 Hereford and Worcester 424,697 523,945 23.4 Northamptonshire 355,625 437,262 23.0 Somerset 297,443 364,569 22.6 Wiltshire 352,599 429,013 21.7 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 304,921 369,663 21.2 Lincolnshire 377,351 456,118 20.9 Dorset 435,987 524,559 20.3 Hampshire 998,035 1,196,718 19.9 Suffolk 403,004 480,869 19.3 West Sussex 470,217 560,031 19.1 Norfolk 491,796 584,449 18.8 Bedfordshire 330,691 390,840 18.2 North Yorkshire 475,467 555,662 16.9 Gloucestershire 352,358 411,466 16.8 Isle of Wight 87,454 101,841 16.5 Oxfordshire 362,422 421,008 16.2
§ Mr. Simon CoombsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the 30 English non-metropolitan districts which have shown the greatest percentage growth in the electorate since 1975; and what have been the percentage growth and actual figures in each case.
§ Mr. DorrellThe information requested is as follows:
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Area Local government electors Percentage Increase 1975 1990 1975–90 English non-metropolitan county districts Milton Keynes 57,136 126,345 121.1 Redditch 33,868 56,881 67.9 Tamworth 33,256 51,049 53.5 Bracknell 46,439 70,016 50.8 Wokingham 72,089 106,107 47.2 Peterborough 77,627 112,375 44.8 Huntingdonshire 70,823 101,348 43.1 East Dorset 44,664 63,875 43.0 Hart 44,946 64,041 42.5 Selby 51,421 71,619 39.3 The Wrekin 75,271 104,277 38.5 Basingstoke and Deane 79,049 109,487 38.5 Eastleigh 58,651 80,433 37.1 East Hampshire 57,583 77,460 34.5
- Society of Osteopaths
- Sterilised Suture Manufacturers Association
- Steripak Limited
- Sussex Clinical Research Consultants Limited
- Technical Committee White Oils Association
- The Co-op Union Limited
- The Patients' Association
- Traditional Acupuncture Society
- Ulster Farmers' Union
- United Kingdom Agricultural Supply Trade Association Limited
- Veterinary Record
- Wholesale Confectioners Alliance Limited
- Wholesale Grocers' Association of Scotland