§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what steps he proposes to counter the backlog of essential work needed in hospitals and in services such as community care, preventive medicine and the care of the mentally ill and mentally handicapped and the elderly in view of the effects on these areas of reductions in expenditure by local authority social service departments.
§ Sir George YoungIt is for health and local authorities to determine their expenditure priorities according to local 155W needs and circumstances, in consultation with each other through the established machinery for collaboration and joint planning.