§ Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smithasked the Minister of Health if he will reconsider his decision to postpone the second stage of the rebuilding of Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, to provide 325 hospital beds and administrative, medical, photographic and pathological departments, in view of the need for this new hospital to replace a 1914–18 hutted hospital to serve a densely populated catchment area from the A.2 to the Cray Valley.
§ Mr. LoughlinThis decision was made by the South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board in reassessing the priorities of its building programme, and my right hon. Friend does not propose to intervene.