HC Deb 13 April 1989 vol 150 c698W
Mr. Gale

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when his Department last carried out cost/benefit studies on the potential savings to be made through the greater use of modern drugs instead of expensive hospital care; and what conclusions he has drawn from those studies.

Mr. Mellor

The Department has not itself commissioned any such research, but we are aware of some useful studies on this topic.