HC Deb 29 November 1993 vol 233 c300W
Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the cost to the national health service of treating patients with problems that could have been prevented by healthy footwear.

Mr. Sackville

None.

Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance has been issued by her Department in relation to children's footwear.

Mr. Sackville

The Health Education Authority's publication "Birth to Five", copies of which are available in the Library, includes a section on feet and first shoes. The book is given free to all first-time mothers in England.