HC Deb 05 February 1997 vol 289 c1009

Mr. Peter Thurnham, supported by Mr. Simon Hughes, Mr. Archy Kirkwood and Mr. Charles Kennedy, presented a Bill to enable health and local authorities to form consortia to commission health and social care for mentally ill people and to jointly disburse the funds voted them by Parliament to provide mental health services: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Wednesday 5 March, and to be printed [Bill 97].