§ Mr. Weetchasked the Secretary of State for Social Services in how many cases, during the last 10 years, the Suffolk family practitioner committee has found a 255W practitioner to have acted in breach of his contract of employment; and in how many of these cases the committee has exercised its power to withhold remuneration.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeWe do not collect detailed local information of this kind centrally. However, the Suffolk family practitioner committee has provided information for the years from 1 April 1982, which is as follows:
numbers Dental breaches 1 Medical breaches 2 Pharmaceutical breaches 2 Opthalmic breaches 1 FPCs have no power to withhold remuneration, though they may recommend to the Secretary of State that a withholding be made in a particular case. A withholding was recommended in three of the six cases.