To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will take steps to preserve the United Kingdom manufacturing base for diamorphine for medical use;(2) what is his Department's policy on importation of finished diamorphine to the United Kingdom;(3) if he will seek to prevent non-reciprocal imports of diamorphine from the European Community to Britain.

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given in another place to a question from the noble Lord Ennals on 16 July 1991 at column 9.