§ 62. Mr. StrangTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what representations he has received about the establishment of needle exchange schemes to reduce the rate of spread of the AIDS virus among injecting drug misusers.
§ Mr. NewtonThis subject is addressed, among ethers, in the report from the advisory council on the misuse of drugs to which the Government responded on 29 March at columns452–54. In addition, we have received eight letters about needle exchange schemes since the start of 1988.