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LOCAL PHARMACISTS

Early day motion 561, tabled 22 January 2003 by Edward O'Hara (Labour). Signed by 173 members.

That this House notes that community pharmacists offer their local communities convenient access to NHS services; recognises their role in reducing the burden on local general practitioners; notes the recommendations of the Office of Fair Trading that pharmaceutical dispensing should be made open to free market competition; is concerned that supermarkets would use their market power to undermine and eliminate small local pharmacies and thereby effect a net loss of NHS provision; and urges Her Majesty's Government not to accept this recommendation of the OFT.

Signatures by party: Labour 96, Liberal Democrat 34, Conservative 15, Labour/Co-operative 11, UUP 6, Plaid Cymru 4, Scottish National Party 4, DUP 1, Independent Conservative 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.