HC Deb 25 July 1989 vol 157 cc670-1W
87. Mr. McAllion

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he last met representatives of the Health Service trade unions to discuss the privatisation of ancillary services.

Mr. Freeman

The Government's policy is for NHS ancillary services to be subject to competitive tendering—not privatisation. Competitive tendering was among a number of topics discussed when my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State met the TUC health services committee on 1 March 1989.