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Deposited Paper DEP 06/1618
Deposited by
Department of Health
Type
Deposited papers
Date
22 August 2006
Reference
DEP 06/1618
House
House of Commons
Deposited Paper DEP 06/597
Deposited by
Department of Health
Type
Deposited papers
Date
13 March 2006
Reference
DEP 06/597
House
House of Lords; House of Commons
NHS: Eye Tests

My honourable friend the Minister of State (Rosie Winterton) made the following Written Ministerial Statement on 10 March. Regulations have today been laid before Parliament to increase optical voucher values by 2.5 per cent. This will continue to provide help with the cost of spectacles or contact lenses to children,...
Member
Lord Warner (Labour)
Department
Department of Health
Type
Written statements
Date
13 March 2006
Reference
679 c89WS
House
House of Lords
Optical Voucher Values

Regulations have today been laid before Parliament to increase optical voucher values by 2.5 per cent. This will continue to provide help with the cost of spectacles or contact lenses to children, people on low income and individuals with complex sight problems. Optical voucher values in Scotland, Wales and Northern...
Member
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster (Labour)
Department
Department of Health
Type
Written statements
Date
10 March 2006
Reference
443 c83WS
House
House of Commons
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Opticians
My Lords, given the anxieties of those about to take the field test, because it might involve them losing their driving licence, is it not unacceptable that they should be required to take these tests in public view—in the noisy, brightly lit public rooms of opticians—instead of in the privacy of the back room of the optometrist? Moreover, is it not unacceptable that they should be required to put on their glasses—glasses which may well be bifocals—and then distort the actual measure of the test when the test is one of peripherality and not of acuity?
Asked by
Lord Harrison (Labour)
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
17 January 2006
Reference
677 c544-5
House
House of Lords