§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to the reply of 9 April, Official Report, column 128, if he will seek information from pharmacists and their organisations on cases in which prescription items are not supplied by the pharmacist, at the patient's request, due to his or her inability to meet the charges.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe arrangements for prescription charge exemption ensure that no one need be deprived of necessary medication on financial grounds. Anyone who is unable to meet the charges without difficulty is presumably therefore spending his or her 141W income on other goods and services and I fail to see how pharmacists can inquire into the personal budgeting of patients.