§ Mr. Win GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the reply of 29 November 1989,Official Report, column 280, if, on the same basis, he will publish how much money was raised in Scotland in prescription charges in 1988–89; and to what specific purposes this money, credited to class XVI, vote 17 subheads A2 and AZ, was put.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe total amount raised from prescription charges in Scotland in 1988–90 was £19.565724W million. The majority of prescription charge income was used directly to reduce the costs, borne on subhead A2 of class XVI, vote 17, of the supply of drugs and appliances prescribed or ordered by general practitioners. Other prescription charges, including those collected by dispensing doctors and those for prepayment certificates, were included in subhead AZ of class XVI, vote 17, and were used to offset total expenditure on the vote.