§ 29. Mrs. Monksasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the number of prescriptions for drugs and appliances which are exempt from payment or partly exempt from payment which were issued on the National Health Service in the year 1972 ; and how this compares with the number issued in 1969, together with the percentage by which free or partly free prescriptions has changed under the present administration.
§ Mr. AlisonIn 1972, including prescriptions dispensed to holders of prepayment certificates, 150 million, 59 per cent. of all prescriptions dispensed by chemists in England, compared with 127 million, 52 per cent., in 1969.