§ Mrs. Knightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will reconsider her decision not to fund the development of the Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre site, in view of the potential dangers to cancer sufferers in the Birmingham area resulting from the lack of radiotherapy facilities there.
§ Dr. OwenTo date, additional radiotherapy facilities have been planned as an integral part of a major development of the Queen Elizabeth site. It is not possible to include this development in this year's capital programme, and the prospects of financing it within the next few years are poor. The health authorities are now considering ways of providing the radiotherapy facilities as a separate scheme, but it is too early to forecast a likely starting date.