Stanley Royd Hospital (Salmonella Poisoning)

HC Deb 15 July 1985 vol 83 c52W

Mr. Fatchett

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services when he expects to publish the report on the inquiry into the outbreak of salmonella poisoning at the Stanley Royd hospital, Wakefield.

Mr. John Patten

The committee of inquiry into the outbreak, under chairman John Hugill QC, completed the public hearings of oral evidence on 17 May. We are awaiting its report, and will publish the findings of the committee once we have given the report careful consideration.