HC Deb 29 April 1988 vol 132 cc334-5W
Mr. Lester

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services by what percentage the RAWP levels of the Thames regional health authorities require to be uplifted to compensate for the treatment of acute patients in private hospitals.

Mr. Newton

I am not entirely clear what my hon. Friend has in mind; but the possibility of taking private provision into account in the RAWP formula was rejected on practical grounds in the interim report on the review of the RAWP formula published in December 1986.

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