§ Mr. Mike Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) how many pharmacists received remuneration for National Health Service work in each year from 1960 to the most recent year available to him;
(2) what is his estimate of the total gross profit earned by pharmacists on National Health Service dispensing in each year from 1960 to the year most recently available to him;
(3) what was the average net ingredient cost and gross cost, respectively, of a National Health prescription in 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, or at such points as the information is available to him, and the most recent year for which information is available to him;
(4) how many National Health Service prescriptions were dispensed in each of the years from 1960 to the year most recently available to him.
§ Sir George Young[pursuant to his replies, 3 December 1980]: Contracts with family practitioner committees for the dispensing of National Health Service prescriptions are entered into by the owners of pharmacies and drug stores—and by appliance contractors—but not by the managers of those establishments. The words "or manager" should, therefore, be deleted from column 258, line 18, column 259, line 28 and column 260, lines 3 and 49, of the daily part of the Official Report.