§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 26 November,Official Report, columns 810–11, if she will name the indigestion remedy, the laxative and the vitamin product that have been granted product licences by the United Kingdom licensing authority since 1985; and what was the recommendation of the NHS Advisory Committee on Drugs in each case.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe indigestion remedy is Pepulsid which the Advisory Committee on National Health Service Drugs accepted was appropriate for supply on NHS prescription. The laxative is Importal which the committee decided should not be prescribable under the NHS by its proprietary name, although it can be supplied under the generic name Lactitol. The vitamin is Hearn which has not been considered by the committee; I understand it may never have been marketed in the United Kingdom.