§ Sir Marcus Kimballasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will look again at the composition of the North Lincolnshire district health authority to see whether one representative from each district council can be included in the authority.
§ Dr. VaughanNon-metropolitan district councils will from next April for the first time have a statutory right to appoint members to health authorities. However, it has not proved possible, where a number of district councils relate to one district health authority, as in north Lincolnshire, to enable each to appoint a member without creating large and unwieldy authorities. We have suggested to the new health authority chairmen that, where there are problems of this kind, they should consider inviting local authorities which do not have direct representation to send an observer to authority meetings.