HC Deb 24 November 1987 vol 123 c172W
87. Mr. Pawsey

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how many major hospital building schemes have been carried through since 1979.

Mrs. Currie

Hospitals are normally built in stages comprising a series of building schemes. Information held centrally shows that in England since 1979, 285 hospital building schemes, each costing over £1 million, have been completed.