§ 47. Mr. David BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applications for amalgamation she has received from district health authorities; and if she will list them.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe Department has received 14 applications from regional health authorities to merge the following district health authorities:
- Hull and East Yorkshire district health authorities
- Grimsby and Scunthorpe district health authorities
- Calderdale, Dewsbury and Huddersfield district health authorities
- Pontefract and Wakefield district health authorities
- West Suffolk and East Suffolk district health authorities
- North East Essex, Mid Essex and West Essex district health authorities
- Bloomsbury and Islington and Hampstead district health authorities
- Southend, Basildon and Thurrock and Brentwood (part of Barking, Havering and Brentwood) district health authorities
- Enfield and Haringey district health authorities
- Lewisham and North Southwark, Camberwell and West Lambeth district health authorities
- Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings district health authorities
- Aylesbury Vale, Wycombe and Milton Keynes district health authorities
- Kingston and Esher and Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton health authorities
- North East Warwickshire and South Warwickshire health authorities.