HC Deb 21 April 1969 vol 782 c14W
67. Mr. Ian Lloyd

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services for what reason his Department decided to suspend the work authorised on residential hostels for the sub-normal in the Wessex Regional Hospital Board area; and whether he will reconsider this decision.

Mr. Crossman

My Department asked the Regional Hospital Board to consider how far its proposals involved provision more properly a responsibility of the local health authority. The board has now revised its proposals and they have been accepted in principle.