§ Sir T. Beamishasked 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.
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§ Mr. HealeyAs 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.