HC Deb 07 December 1965 vol 722 cc88-9W
Mr. Wood

asked the Minister of Health (1) how many hospital building projects costing more than £100,000, which the hospital boards had not planned in October, 1964, to start in 1965–66, have now been included in the programme for starting during that year;

(2) whether there are any building projects costing more than £100,000 other than those listed in his answer of 4th June, 1965, which the hospital boards expected in October, 1964, to start in 1965–66, and which have now been postponed.

Mr. K. Robinson

Five projects have had to be deferred from the 1965–66 programme because they could not be accommodated within financial allocations: in addition, 20 have been, or may be, unable to start because planning has not been completed in time or because of a need for considerable replanning.

Nine additional schemes have been advanced or brought into the programme to start in 1965–66, and the starts of a further 10 have been carried over from 1964–65.