HC Deb 17 April 1975 vol 890 c165W
Mr. Freud

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many kidney machines there are in Cambridgeshire; and how far short this is of the desirable number.

Dr. Owen

The service for treatment by intermittent haemodialysis of patients suffering from chronic renal failure is a regional one, and the facilities cannot be attributed to individual counties within the region. There are 38 machines in hospitals in the region used for this

Amounts of Supplementary Benefit paid to:
Strikers Dependants
Company Date of Dispute £ £
Ford (Dagenham) October 1973 Nil 1,015
Ford (Dagenham) October 1974 60 28,603
Vauxhall (Ellesmere Port) November 1973 41 63,908
British Leyland (Cowley) April 1974 Nil 1,515
British Leyland (Preston) July 1974 41 8,113
British Leyland (Bathgate) September 1974 16 3,014