§ 30. Mrs. GormanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the level of funding undertaken by his Department to promote hormone replacement therapy as a preventive treatment for menopausal illnesses.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyDecisions on prescribing hormone replacement therapy rest on clinical judgment and are therefore a professional matter. We were pleased to provide funding of £9,500 for a workshop on HRT and osteoporosis, a total of £53,000 to three voluntary organisations in this field, and £128,000 for research projects. The number of prescriptions for HRT in 1989 was 2.9 million which cost the NHS £295 million.