HC Deb 19 June 1973 vol 858 cc74-5W
Mr. William Price

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what hospital building is programmed for Coventry during the short and long term; and at what cost.

Mr. Alison

The following schemes are expected to start in the current year at a total cost of £1,727,000:

Coventry and Warwick, X-ray department; upgrading boiler plant; outpatients department; staff residences; intensive therapy unit; laboratory; orthoptic facilities.

Walsgrave, 196 geriatric beds and day hospital; EEG department; nurse training accommodation.

Whitley: telephone installation.

In the longer term there are five schemes at present approved for planning at a total estimated cost of £135,000.