HC Deb 04 February 1974 vol 868 c258W
Mr. R. C. Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what would be the estimated cost of extending the exemption of prescription charges for the same periods at present given to nursing mothers to those mothers who experience loss of a baby at birth.

Mr. Alison

About £13,000 a year—in England and Wales—in respect of stillbirths and losses in the first week after birth.