Farms and Gardens

HC Deb 13 February 1956 vol 548 cc227-8W

59. Colonel Stoddart-Scott

asked the Minister of Health to state the amount of money lost in the last financial year by regional hospital boards and hospital management committees on running farms and gardens.

Mr. Talton

None. Over the country as a whole, income from farms and

have already been authorised or included in future capital programmes. A complete list of all schemes under consideration by hospital Boards is not centrally available.

market gardens exceeded expenditure in 1954–55 by £62,000.