HC Deb 12 May 1967 vol 746 cc310-1W
Sir T. Beamish

asked the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will offer to equip and staff a military hospital and to provide an ambulance unit in South Vietnam as a positive token of British support for United States policy and as being consistent with British obligations under the South East Asia Treaty Organisation.

Mr. Healey

As the House already knows, it is the Government's policy to provide civilian aid to South Vietnam, and indeed we already support a civilian paediatric team in Saigon. I have no plans to offer to equip and staff a military hospital or to provide an ambulance unit.