§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what discussions there have been with overseas drug regulatory agencies following his decision to recommend that aspirin should not be given to children;
(2) whether he has requested aspirin manufacturers to warn on their labels that aspirin should not normally be given to children; and whether any such request applies to aspirin intended for overseas sale;
(3) if the decision of the Committee on Safety of Medicines that aspirin should not normally be given to children has been communicated to other drug regulatory agencies together with the evidence that led the committee to reach this conclusion.
§ Mrs. CurrieI shall let the right hon. Member have replies as soon as possible.
Estimated average daily number of beds in non-psychiatric National occupied by patients with selected main diagnoses National health service hospital in England Main diagnosis ICD1 Estimated average number of beds occupied daily code 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 Alcoholic psychoses 291 18 38 13 23 31 Alcohol dependence syndrome 303 70 69 65 72 64