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Mr. Jim Lester
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what would have been the cost to the Exchequer over the last 12-month period for which figures are available if all appliance prescriptions written by dispensing doctors in England and Wales had been dispensed (a) by pharmacy contractors and (b) by appliance contractors.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
This information is not available in the form requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.