HC Deb 25 March 1999 vol 328 c402W
Mr. Öpik

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what estimate he has made of(a) the annual cost of abolishing all charges for eye checks and (b) the annual number of people who currently make some payment for such checks. [78530]

Mr. Jon Owen Jones

477,000 NHS sight tests were undertaken in 1997–98 at a cost to the NHS of some£6.7 million.

Following the transfer of functions, this issue will be a matter for the National Assembly.

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