§ Sir Dudley Smithasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will estimate the annual profit made by pharmacists who import pharmaceutical preparations from abroad and who then charge his Department with the full British price.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeIt has not been possible to ascertain, with any degree of reliability, the extent of the gains which some pharmacists are acquiring from parallel. imports. As I said in reply to my hon. Friend on 27 March at columns134–35 we are hoping to produce as soon as possible a workable system which gets us a supply of drugs at fair and competitive prices.