§ Commander Purseyasked the Minister of Health (1) whether he will take steps to ensure that opticians under contract with the National Health Service, in their window and other advertising, use only the correct terms of their qualifications, namely ophthalmic optician or dispensing optician, and not other terms liable to mislead the public;
(2) whether he will take steps to ensure that opticians under contract with the National Health Service, in their window and other advertising, use only the name and qualification of the optician actually providing the service and not the names of firms or opticians where the person named has long since been deceased;
(3) whether he will take steps to ensure that opticians under contract with the National Health Service do not display in their windows offers to supply 84W children's spectacles and statements of sight testing at homes and evening consultations, and do not attach to their receipts pamphlets offering to adjust and repair spectacles and advertising chain-store dispensing shops.
§ Miss PittMy right hon. and learned Friend is satisfied that the terms of service of opticians deal adequately with advertising in relation to contracts under the National Health Service pending any rules which may be made by the General Optical Council on advertising in general.