§ Mr. CannTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of prescription drugs cost less than £5.
§ Mrs. BeckettTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of prescriptions cost less than £5; what is the(a) average and (b) median cost of a prescription item; how many prescriptions were issued by doctors in the last year; how many prescriptions items were dispensed by pharmacists last year, in total, and by the family health service authority area; and what has been the total revenue generated by charging for prescriptions in each of the last 15 years.
§ Mr. Malone[pursuant to his reply, 9 December 1994, column 397]: I regret that some of the figures in the table "Percentage distribution by total cost of prescription items dispensed by community pharmacists, appliance contractors and dispensing doctors and prescription items personally administered by prescribing doctors in England in 1993, and the average total cost of such items" placed in the Library are incorrect. A correct table has been placed in the Library.