§ Mr. Normantonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is her estimate of the current value of the privately owned buildings and the stocks and shares forming endowments of the private hospitals in 1947, which were taken over by the State on the arrangement that private beds would remain available for the use of the public generally, so far as required.
§ Mrs. CastleI do not think that the enormous expense of such a valuation exercise could be justified even if it were practicable. Moreover, the premises and endowments transferred in 1948 were expressly freed from any existing trust and I do not accept that there was a causal link of the kind implied in the hon. Member's Question.