HC Deb 22 May 1975 vol 892 cc588-9W
Mrs. Chalker

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will consider altering the charges for lenses supplied to partially-sighted persons as part of a continually changing treatment.

Dr. Owen

Health authorities may already issue on loan temporary glasses to patients without charge following cataract operations. I am considering whether it is possible to extend these arrangements to others during periods of continually changing visual accuity.