Expenditure (Returns) (Hansard, 13 February 1956)

HC Deb 13 February 1956 vol 548 c2072 2072

§ 53. Mr. Peyton
asked the Minister of Health the reasons for requiring quarterly returns from regional hospital boards of capital expenditure.

§ The Minister of Health (Mr. R. H. Turton)
To keep my Department informed of the progress of work under the hospital building programme.

§ Mr. Peyton
Will my right hon. Friend do his best to keep in some control his Department's insatiable appetite for information, much of which may be very unreliable and misleading, since these quarterly returns are far too frequent?

§ Mr. Turton
These returns are very important, and enable me to know what work is actually being done so that I can keep some control over the hospitals' capital programme.