§ Mr. Gareth WardellTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer to the hon. Member for Wallsend (Mr. Byers) of 13 July,Official Report, column 513, if she has now decided to make Novopen needles for diabetics available by prescription from general practitioners.
§ Dr. MawhinneyWe are continuing to consider the case for authorising general practitioners to prescribe both insulin injection pens and needles but, in reaching a final decision, we shall need to take into account current public expenditure constraints.