§ Brian CotterTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to carry out a regulatory impact assessment on the proposals to reform and modernise the NHS (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992. [137302]
§ Ms Rosie WintertonI refer the hon. Member to the draft regulatory impact assessment and competition assessment at Annex C of our consultation document, "Proposals to reform and modernise the NHS (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992" published on 29 August 2003. This is available on the Department's website at www.doh.gov.uk/pharmacy regulationconsultation.
Comments on the consultation document and draft assessments can be sent, by 21 November 2003, to Peter Dunlevy, Pharmacy and Prescriptions Branch, Department of Health, Room 155, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS or e-mailed to peter.dunlevy@doh.gsi.gov.uk. We will publish a final full regulatory impact assessment and competition assessment in due course having analysed all comments received. These assessments will be placed in the Library.