§ 35. Mr. G. M. Thomsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland when he expects building operations to begin on the new Dundee hospital.
§ Mr. GalbraithThe present forecast is that building operations will begin in February, 1963.
§ Mr. ThomsonIs the Joint Under-Secretary aware that it is exactly a year ago since I asked a similar Question and that there was then a sense of shock when he announced that the starting date had been put back to late 1961? Is he aware that his information that the work is now being pushed back for two years to 1963 will make people in Scotland feel that it is disgracefully slow and is becoming a national scandal?
§ Mr. GalbraithThe hon. Gentleman must realise this is the first complete new teaching hospital to be built in Scotland. There is no up-to-date experience in the United Kingdom of the building of a new teaching hospital, and we want to make sure that, when we build, we build in the right way.