§ 27. Mr. Watkinsonasked the Minister of Health if he will issue instructions to regional hospital boards to ensure that local needs are given priority when expenditure on new construction is authorised.
§ Mr. BevanRegional boards already allocate capital expenditure according to the relative urgency of local needs.
Mr. WatkinsonAAs that principle does not seem to be working out in Woking, will the right hon. Gentleman be kind enough to have a look again into a case which is already in his Department?
§ Mr. BevanCertainly, but I should have thought that the regional hospital board had behaved here as it does elsewhere.