§ Mr. Whitlockasked the Secretary of State for Social Services when, and for what reasons, decisions upon two previous deferments of the ward block scheme at the Nottingham City Hospital were made.
§ Dr. OwenI would refer my hon. Friend to my reply to him of 4th March 1975.—[Vol. 887, c.377.]—The Trent Regional Health Authority decided that this scheme should only start in 1975–76 if it could do so without prejudicing higher priority schemes in 1976–77. We have not yet been able to give the regional health authority its capital allocation for 1976–77 and it has, therefore, been unable to assess what the implications of starting the scheme would be.