§ Mr. Skinnerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will provide the local health authority with sufficient funds to enable them to provide a health centre at Creswell, Derbyshire, for the inhabitants who live within the jurisdiction of Creswell parish council.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeIt is for the Trent regional health authority to allocate resources to the North Derbyshire health authority. North Derbyshire health authority must decide on the priority to be given to a health centre at Creswell compared with other claims on its allocated budget. It is this Government's policy that these decisions are better taken by local health authorities near to the patients than by Ministers and officials in Whitehall.