§ Mr. PaiceTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his statement of 4 December 1990,Official Report,columns 173–74, on expressions of interest in national health service trust status, whether he has received any further expressions of interest in proceeding to develop their plans for national health service trust status for April 1992; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. WaldegraveI have now agreed that Southampton University hospital, which has expressed an interest in trust status, can proceed to work up an application to become a trust on 1 April 1992.