HC Deb 16 December 1976 vol 922 c829W
Mr. Molloy

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, further to the reply to the hon. Member for Ealing, North on 24th February, whether he will now undertake an examination of the loss sustained by National Health Service hospitals on unpaid debts for pay beds, with a view to bringing forward proposals.

Mr. Moyle

Bad debts arising from pay bed patients are not separately identified in accounts received centrally from health authorities. To identify them would require a disproportionate effort.