§ Mr. BurdenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will place in the Library a copy of the KPMG Peat Marwick report on the proposal to close hospitals in the South Birmingham health authority.
§ Dr. MawhinneyPublication of the KPMG Peat Marwick report is a matter for West Midlands regional health authority.
§ Mr. BurdenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health when she was informed of the proposed establishment of financial information packages from West Midlands regional health authority; and what advice her Department gave about the framework for the new company.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThis Department and West Midlands regional health authority jointly funded what was known as the financial information project during the 1980s. The Department was not involved in the arrangements in 1990 by the West Midlands regional health authority to evolve the project into FIP health or in the association of that company with a charitable body known as the health management trust other than to advise on the granting of licences of the crown copyright systems software.
§ Mr. BurdenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will cut the payments made to financial information packages by West Midlands regional health authority.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe question of payments to Financial Information Project Systems Ltd. is currently under investigation.