asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what specific instructions have been issued by his Department to chemists about the methods they should adopt for the safekeeping of drugs; and when these instructions were last revised.

Regulation 12(2) of the Dangerous Drugs (No. 2) Regulations, 1964, requires that drugs and preparations now listed in Part I of the Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1965, shall be kept in a locked receptacle which can be opened only by the chemist authorised to possess the drugs or by some assistant of his who is a registered pharmaceutical chemist. These Regulations came into operation on 1st December, 1964.