HC Deb 16 March 1970 vol 798 cc32-4W
Mr. Will Griffiths

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will list the changes in design of spectacle frames available to National Health Service patients since the original schedule was introduced in 1948; and whether he will list the dates when these changes were made.

Dr. John Dunwoody

My Department does not specify detailed designs but lays down only the broad descriptions of the types of frames which are available through the National Health Service. Within these broad descriptions, the changes in which since 1948 are summarisecl below, there has been consider

RANGE OF NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE FRAMES AVAILABLE IN 1948 (for both Adults and Children)
2 Nickel frames … … … … (Nos. 111*, 121*)
2 Nickel Windsor frames … … … … (Nos. 211*, 221)
2 Gold filled frames … … … … (Nos. 311*, 321)
6 Gold filled Windsor frames … … … … (Nos. 411*, 421; 412*, 413*. 422, 423)
7 Plastics frames … … … … (Nos. 514, 614; 515, 524, 525, 615, 624*)

ADDITIONS DELETIONS
March, 1949
2 Nickel Reversible frames (Nos. 136*. 146*)
2 Gold filled Reversible frames (Nos. 336*, 346*)
1 Plastics Reversible frame (No. 546*)
April, 1950
1 Plastics frame (No. 624)
September, 1950
2 Nickel children's frames (Nos. C111*, C117*)
4 Nickel Windsor children's frames (Nos. C211*, C213*, C221*, C223)
2 Plastics children's frames (Nos. C521*, C525)
(Note: This was a special range of frames for children, some of them children's versions of pre-existing frames).
High-joint versions of frames Nos. 321, 421, 422, 423 and 524.
December, 1955
2 Gold filled half-eye frames (Nos. 721, 722)
4 Plastics half-eve frames (Nos. 814,815*, 824,825*)
March, 1958
2 Plastics half-eye frames (Nos. 815, 825)
May, 1959
1 Nickel Windsor children's frame (No. C253)
December, 1960
1 Nickel children's frame (No. C111)
2 Nickel Windsor children's frames (Nos. C211, C213)
1 Nickel frame (No. 111)
1 Nickel reversible frame (No. 136)
1 Nickel Windsor frame (No. 211)
1 Gold filled frame (No. 311)
1 Gold filled reversible frame (No. 336)
3 Gold filled Windsor frames (Nos. 411, 412, 413)
1 Plastics reversible frame (No. 546)
May, 1962
1 Plastics children's frame (No. C521)
1 Nickel frame (No. 121)
October, 1963
1 Nickel children's frame (No. C127) 1 Nickel children's frame (No. C117)
1 Nickel Windsor Children's frame (No. 227) 1 Nickel Windsor children's frame (No. C221)
High-joint versions of frames Nos. C223 and C253
April, 1964
1 Nickel reversible frame (No. 146)
1 Gold filled reversible frame (No. 346)
*Frame subsequently deleted.

able development in the detailed design of frames and since November, 1950 my Department has given over 3,000 approvals to particular frames submitted by manufacturers.