§ Mr. Doddsasked the Minister of Health the daily diet allowance per patient in the mental and also the general hospitals in the Dartford area; and on what dates the present scales were introduced.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodI am informed that since July, 1953, the hospital management committee has had a procedure for authorising the officer concerned in the general hospitals in the Dartford area to spend up to a certain weekly sum per head of staff and patients without further reference to the committee. The sum is at present 26s. a week. There is no such procedure in the mental hospitals in this area.