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Answered by
Lord Hesketh (Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
22 December 1988
Reference
502 c1458
House
House of Lords
If the composition of General Optical Council will reflect rights & needs of consumer following deregulation of the supply of reading spectacles by the Health & Medicines Act 1988. 1st Supplementary on GOC blocking new technology of autorefractors to protect interest of its members.
Asked by
Lord Rugby (Crossbench)
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
22 December 1988
Reference
502 c1458
House
House of Lords
Answered by
Lord Hesketh (Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
22 December 1988
Reference
502 c1458
House
House of Lords
If the composition of General Optical Council will reflect rights & needs of consumer following deregulation of the supply of reading spectacles by the Health & Medicines Act 1988. 1st Supplementary on GOC blocking new technology of autorefractors to protect interest of its members.
Asked by
Lord Rugby (Crossbench)
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Date
22 December 1988
Reference
502 c1458
House
House of Lords

To give for each financial year since 1973 & estimate for current year of no of ophthalmic tests carried out under NHS; no of new eye glasses prescribed, cost of the tests & glasses prescribed; no for which payment had to be paid in whole or part & average %...

Asked by
Austin Mitchell (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 November 1988
Reference
140 c559-60W;140 c560W
House
House of Commons

Whether it is acceptable practice for an optician carrying out a sight test to add "E & OE" ("Errors & Omissions") to Form GOS(P), without specifying the nature of the errors & omissions; & if such a test would attract a Govt subsidy.

Asked by
Lord Rugby (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
2 November 1988
Reference
501 c386
House
House of Lords

What is cost to public funds for whole of UK for each of past 3 years for which figures are available of spectacle voucher schemes for exempt groups for general optical service dispensing. - Figures for 1986/87 & provisional for 1987/88.

Asked by
Michael Shersby (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
27 October 1988
Reference
139 c329W;139 c327W
House
House of Commons

What the NHS voucher values will be to take account of the imposition of VAT on spectacles. - Includes table.

Asked by
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
28 July 1988
Reference
138 c539W;138 c538-9W
House
House of Commons

What assessment has been made of implications for provision of spectacles by opticians in UK of finding by European Court that UK was in breach of its treaty obligations by holding that provision of spectacles was a medical service.

Asked by
Michael Meacher (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health and Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
30 June 1988
Reference
136 c360W;136 c351-2W
House
House of Commons
If Govt accepts ruling of European Court of Justice on 23 Feb (Case 353/85) that the provision of spectacles is not a medical service & that UK is in breach of its treaty obligations by exempting the provision of spectacles from VAT. Supplementary on the findings of Committees in the past, in agreement with the judgment
Asked by
Lord Rugby (Crossbench)
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
9 May 1988
Reference
496 c821
House
House of Lords
Answered by
Lord Brabazon of Tara (Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
9 May 1988
Reference
496 c821
House
House of Lords

If Attorney-General will prosecute Magnisite Ltd., operating as Magnivision, for offering for sale ready-made reading spectacles without a prescription from a suitable registered practitioner, under section 21 of the Opticians Act 1958

Asked by
Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour)
Answering body
Attorney General
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
28 April 1988
Reference
132 c230W
House
House of Commons

How much money will be raised by imposing value added tax on spectacles & contact lenses. (Holding answer 7 March 1988). (Omitted from Daily Part on 10.3.88, printed in Daily Part 25.3.88 omitted from bound vol. 129; see correction slip inserted in vol. 129).

Asked by
Baroness Knight of Collingtree (Conservative)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
25 March 1988
Reference
130 c271W;129 correction slip
House
House of Commons

Details of optical voucher values & charges; prescription charges; dental charges; daily charges for services provided for overseas visitors as in-patients or other than as in-patients as at 1 April 1988. DHSS, 29 February 1988.

Deposited by
Department of Health and Social Security
Type
Deposited papers
Date
16 March 1988
Reference
DEP 3680
House
House of Commons

European Court of Justice judgment on value added tax - goods supplied in the exercise of a medical or paramedical profession, 23 February 1988. (Case 353/85)

Deposited by
European Court of Justice
Type
Deposited papers
Date
14 March 1988
Reference
DEP 3656
House
House of Commons

No of portable prescriptions for spectacles processed by unregistered opticians dispensaries since Health & Social Security Act 1984 came into force & how many unregistered dispensaries are currently operating. - Nearly 21,000 NHS vouchers were used to obtain spectacles from unregistered suppliers during 12-month to 30 June 1987.

Asked by
Lord Rugby (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 March 1988
Reference
494 c793
House
House of Lords

Further to 127 c821, if, in the light of decision of European Court of Justice on 23 Feb on zero rating of spectacles & hearing aids, it remains policy of Govt that it will insist on UK rights to determine zero rating

Asked by
Teddy Taylor (Conservative)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 February 1988
Reference
128 c369W;128 c368W
House
House of Commons
Lead member
Nigel Spearing
Answering member
Lord Lilley
Department
Treasury
Type
Private notice questions
Date
24 February 1988
Reference
128 c297-8
House
House of Commons
Member
Lord Lilley (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
24 February 1988
Reference
128 c298
House
House of Commons

Supplementary on European Court of Justice decision on VAT for spectacles & amendments to overrule such judgments.

Member
Lord Shore of Stepney (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
24 February 1988
Reference
128 c299
House
House of Commons