§ Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report the number of consultative documents concerning proposals to close wards or hospitals or to make changes in the use of hospital services which have been published since 1979 by district health authorities within the four Thames regional authorities; how many decisions have been made; and, of these, how many decisions differed from the proposals originally made.
§ Mr. HayhoeDepartmental records show that from May 1979 up to the end of June 1985 there were 208 proposals for closure or change of use of entire hospitals or parts of hospitals. A final decision had been reached on 167 of them and many proposals where the decision was to proceed have been modified, sometimes very extensively: detailed information is not, however, collected centrally. Eighteen proposals were not proceeded with.