Lieut.-Colonel MURRAYasked the Home Secretary whether he has received representations from qualified pharmacists in the North-East of Scotland, protesting against the draft Regulations of The Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920, published in the "London Gazette" of 7th January, 1921; whether he has taken the representations into consideration with a view to the appointment of a committee to redraft the Regulations; and whether in the meantime he will suspend the operation of the draft Regulations?
§ Sir D. HALLasked the Home Secretary if, on account of the opposition by the medical profession to the Dangerous Drug Regulations, which come into force this month, he will suspend the same until full consultation between the Government and the British Medical Association and the Pharmaceutical Society has taken place on the matter; and whether under these Regulations the obtaining by the public of certain necessary medicines will be surrounded by all sorts of restrictions and the public will have to pay materially higher for the medicines?
§ Sir J. BAIRDI would refer the hon. and gallant Members to the statement which I made last Thursday in reply to a number of questions on this subject