In view of the fact that, for a considerable time the Comptroller and Auditor General has been criticising the high cost of drugs, is not it regrettable that after so many warnings he is now able to say that the nation's drug bill has rocketed to £100 million a year; that a major aspect of it is that many hospitals are buying individually and some are being charged five times as much, or more, than others for the same tables? Is not it a scandal that after so long money is being paid unnecessarily to rich drug firms while shillings for prescriptions are being squeezed from the sick poor?