§ Miss Quennellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the dates on which his Department received the regional hospital boards' annual reports to him on their implementation of his requirement that fire drills are carried out twice per year at all hospitals, showing when the fire drills took place in each case for the past five years.
§ Sir K. JosephAnnual reports by regional hospital boards on the implementation of the Department's guidance on fire precautions, including the frequency of fire drills, began in September, 1971, and were all received by the end of November. Boards are not required to report the actual dates on which the drills took place.