§ Mr. Ovendenasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he has received any correspondence from the South-East Thames regional health authority about the effect of the 1979–80 level of spending in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham area health authority on the plans for redistribution of resources to Kent and Sussex area health authorities; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. EnnalsThe South-East Thames regional health authority is discussing with my Department the implications of holding the expenditure of the Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham area health authority (Teaching) in 1979–80 to the 1977–78 level in real terms in the light of my decision to give the regional health authority an allocation above that on which its previous planning assumptions were based. These discussions have, of course, given rise to some correspondence
640Wlist figures as at 30 September 1978 were as follows:
between my officials and officers of the regional health authority.