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Untitled Oral question
Whether to refer retailing of spectacles by opticians to Monopolies & Mergers Commission.
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Lord Rugby (Crossbench)
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Answered
Date
5 December 1989
Reference
513 c841
House
House of Lords
Untitled Oral question
What proposals have for reducing size of General Optical Council & its committees now that regulation of opticians is increasingly within power of Ministers under recent legislation.
Asked by
Lord Rugby (Crossbench)
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Date
4 December 1989
Reference
513 c729
House
House of Lords
Untitled Oral question
To introduce legislation to amend Optician's Act 1989 to delete references to spectacles as "medical appliances" now that EC rulings have confirmed they should not be so described & what were costs to taxpayer in European Court case regarding description of spectacles as "medical appliances" & if HMG are seeking reimbursement from opticians.
Asked by
Lord Rugby (Crossbench)
Oral questions - Lead
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Answered
Date
4 December 1989
Reference
513 c729
House
House of Lords
Untitled Oral question
What guidance is given to opticians regarding fractional tolerance in sight testing, so that customers are not dissuaded from purchasing new "reading glasses" by unnecessary insistance on a very small difference of correction between two lenses in a pair of spectacles.
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Lord Rugby (Crossbench)
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Date
4 December 1989
Reference
513 c729-30
House
House of Lords
Untitled Oral question
To now enforce terms "refraction", "defects of refraction" & "refractionist" in place of "sight", "defects of sight" (neither of which is defined in Opticians Act 1989) & "optometrist", "ophthalmic optician" or "optician" respectively.
Asked by
Lord Rugby (Crossbench)
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Date
4 December 1989
Reference
513 c728
House
House of Lords
Untitled Written question

Who will be members of investigating body on future policy with regard to eye testing.
Asked by
Lord Rugby (Crossbench)
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Written questions
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Answered
Date
27 July 1989
Reference
510 c1668
House
House of Lords
Untitled Written question

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
Untitled Written question

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)
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Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 March 1988
Reference
494 c793
House
House of Lords
Untitled Written question

Provision in Estimates for 1987-88 for expenditure on sight tests is #110.8m & for all other NHS costs related to supply of spectacles is #54.6m.
Asked by
Lord Rugby (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 July 1987
Reference
488 c1378
House
House of Lords