§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act, 1947, medical practitioners are permitted to obtain without restriction medical supplies for their personal use in their practices upon presentation of their own prescriptions; that under the National Health Service (England) Act, 1946, medical practitioners are for this purpose granted only 2s. 6d. per annum per 100 patients; and whether in the public interest he will make the same concession to English practitioners as is made to Scottish practitioners.
§ Mr. BevanI see no reason to alter the arrangement; which, incidentally, was in force before, under the old National Health Insurance scheme.