HC Deb 21 July 1964 vol 699 c70W
Mr. Pavitt

asked the Minister of Health if he will give the financial content of the hospital building programme for each of the hospital regions and for the teaching hospitals as approved in the revision published in April, 1963.

Mr. Barber

The £600 mililon of the revision published in April, 1963, adjusted to an income and expenditure basis and including the value of centrally purchased equipment, was apportionable as follows:

Regional Hospital Boards £million
Newcastle 32
Leeds 36
Sheffield 55
East Anglian 17
North West Metropolitan 40
North East Metropolitan 38
South East Metrpolitan 26
South West Metropolitan 29
Oxford 28
South Western 37
Birmingham 58
Manchester 47
Liverpool 33
Wessex 23
Welsh 33
Teaching Hospitals 142

Not all the deferments necessary within this £600 million programme had been defined by April, 1963.