§ Ms PrimaroloTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list all the items for which recipients are charged in the NHS and give the amounts raised in each category.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe available information is shown in the table.
Charged National Health Service items and revenue from charges in England 1992–93 Service Charge Revenue Family Health Services Prescriptions 242.0 Family Health Services Dental Treatment 394.8 All NHS sight tests are free of charge. People who are entitled to help with the cost of spectacles receive this in the form of a spectacle voucher; the sale of spectacles is always a private transaction between patient and practitioner, even when an NHS voucher is used. Information about hospital prescriptions, the hospital eye service, and hospital orthotic services is not available centrally.