HC Deb 01 December 1981 vol 14 c91W
Mrs. Dunwoody

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will set up an investigation into drug prices in the United Kingdom to examine whether, or to what extent, drug prices are being artificially held high by pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Vaughan

No. Prices of National Health Service medicines are regulated under the pharmaceutical price regulation scheme agreed between the Health Departments and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry in 1978.