§ Mr. Milneasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give in detail the proposals made for the future of the private sector of the National Health Service contained in the report prepared for him by United States consultants prior to the publication of the Government's White Paper on the future of the National Health Service.
§ Sir K. JosephI have neither commissioned nor received any report on private practice in the National Health Service from United States consultants. Nor were the consultants commissioned by me to help in preparing proposals for 417W the management structure of a reorganised National Health Service invited to consider the private sector.