§ 48. Mr. Nigel Fisherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what proportion of the total cost of the National Health Service was made up of the cost of medicines in 1969.
§ Sir K. JosephThe cost of medicines—excluding dressings and appliances and chemists' fees—accounted for about 9 per cent. of the total cost of the National Health Service in England and Wales in 1968–69.