§ Dr. Dickson Mabonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state each proposal for new hospital buildings, extensions and improvements which has been agreed in principle but not yet authorised by the Department of Health or by the regional hospital boards, in each of the regions in Scotland.
§ Mr. MaclayWhere my Department gives approval in principle, there is normally a reasonably firm indication of the permissible starting date. In relation to the smaller schemes wholly under the control of regional hospital boards, a board may approve schemes in principle before it is in a position to include them in a building programme for a specific year, but no list of such schemes is maintained centrally.