HC Deb 06 July 1950 vol 477 c617
27. Mr. Watkinson

asked 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. Bevan

Regional boards already allocate capital expenditure according to the relative urgency of local needs.

Mr. WatkinsonA

As 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. Bevan

Certainly, but I should have thought that the regional hospital board had behaved here as it does elsewhere.