To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the expenditure on general practitioner prescribed leg ulcer bandages via the PACT—prescribing analyses and costs—system in 1994 by nation, region and health authority; and what this expenditure is as an expenditure per head of population for each of the regions and health authorities. [4927]

It is not possible to identify reliably expenditure on leg ulcer bandages because the bandages used for the treatment of leg ulcers may also be used for other purposes.