HC Deb 11 November 1976 vol 919 cc222-3W
Mr. Patrick Jenkin

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the organisations he is consulting with regard to his proposal to disallow certain advertising expenses for the purposes of the Voluntary Price Regulation Scheme.

Mr. Ennals

I announced on 22nd July a reduction in the pharmaceutical sales promotion expenditure, including advertising, accepted as a cost under the Voluntary Price Regulation Scheme. I am consulting interested organisations about the proposal to accept without reduction the cost of advertising in learned and professional journals which derive or will derive a significant part of their income from subscriptions. The organisations being consulted are listed below.

Royal College of:

  • General Practitioners
  • Nursing
  • Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Pathologists
  • Physicians
  • Psychiatrists
  • Radiologists
  • Surgeons

Faculty of:

  • Anaesthetists
  • Community Medicine

Council for Post Graduate Medical Education:

Association of:

  • British Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Learned and Professional Society Publishers
  • Nurse Administrators
  • British Dental Association
  • British Medical Association
  • Health Visitors Association
  • Periodical Publishers Association
  • Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
  • Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
  • General Medical Services Committee
  • Joint Committee for Community Medicine
  • Joint Consultative Committee

Printing/Publishing Unions & Associations

  • Institute of Journalists
  • Institute of Management in Printing Ltd.
  • National Graphical Association
  • National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel
  • National Union of Journalists
  • Printing Trade Alliance
  • Society of Graphical and Allied Trades
  • Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers
  • The Medical Journalists Association
  • The Advertising Association
  • The Incorporated Society of British Advertisers Ltd.