asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many plastic syringes were prescribed for use by diabetics in the last full year for which figures are available.

This information is not held centrally.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Maryhill of 14 December 1981, Official Report, c. 51, what progress is being made in the changeover to 100 strength in insulin for diabetics; and what consideration he has given in this respect to plastic syringes.

I have nothing to add to the reply to which the hon. Member refers and the further reply I gave him on he same date. [Vol. 15, c. 51.]