§ Mr. Bishopasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what decision he has made regarding the right, under his regulations, of doctors in rural areas to dispense medicines as an alternative to the dispensing of prescriptions by chemists; what representations have been made; and with what result.
§ Mr. CrossmanI would refer my hon. Friend to my reply to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Garston (Mr. Fortescue) on 5th May. Further representations of protest have since been made by individual pharmacists and by their professional18W bodies; but I have not received any alternative proposals of the kind mentioned in my earlier reple.—[Vol. 783, c. 10.]