§ Mr. Juddasked the Minister of Health what action he will take to provide the £10,000 still needed to ensure the availability of laundry facilities, without which the new £1,000,000 maternity hospital at St. Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, will be unable to open.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonThe expenditure of this £10,000 was not essential to ensure the availability of laundry facilities to enable the hospital to open; it was for the improvement of existing facilities shared by the hospital and local authority. The Portsmouth City Council propose to meet this expenditure from their own resources.