§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Carmarthen on 9 February, Official Report, c. 308, for the areas of Wales in which night and week-end deputising services are used, how many doctors are on duty at the same time for every 50,000 of the population on the lists of the practices employing the deputising services.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsI regret that this information is not available. Arrangements for deputising services are a matter for the individual general medical practitioner concerned, subject to his obtaining the prior consent of the local family practitioner committee.