HC Deb 13 December 1972 vol 848 c163W
63. Mr. Pavitt

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many drug manufacturers are now supplying the National Health Service with tetracycline and similar broad spectrum antibiotics: and if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the dates and prices fixed under the voluntary price regulation scheme.

Sir K. Joseph

There are at least 21 drug manufacturers now supplying tetracycline or oxytetracycline products alone or in combination with other drugs.

Listing the many and various prices of all the products at different dates would involve disproportionate cost.