§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for Social Services why he has suggested that the Skelmersdale development corporation should make a special financial allocation to the regional hospital authority to help build a community hospital in Skelmersdale.
§ Mr. MoyleMy right hon. Friend has made no such suggestion. The North-Western regional health authority has announced its intention to seek a special financial allocation from the new town's programme; my Department has given advice only on the method by which such an arrangement might be sought.
§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give a firm date for a start to be made on the community hospital in Skelmersdale.
§ Mr. MoyleThe position remains as stated in the reply I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Ince (Mr. McGuire) on 15 December 1977.—[Vol. 941, c.595.]