HC Deb 27 February 1995 vol 255 c418W
Mr. Etherington

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the total annual projected cost of making the provision of insulin injection pens and needles available on general practitioner prescription.

Mr. Malone

The cost of making injection pens and needles prescribable by general practitioners would depend upon the price the Department is able to negotiate with the manufacturers, and the rate at which general practitioners prescribe them.