Heath Hospital, Cardiff

HC Deb 28 January 1985 vol 72 cc9-10W

Mr. Grist

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give details of the settlement reached on 10 February 1984 between the Welsh Health Technical Services Organisation and S. W. Milburn and Partners and W. S. Atkins and Partners pertaining to structural and material defects in the Heath hospital, Cardiff.

Mr. Wyn Roberts

The settlement was reached between the Welsh Health Technical Services Organisation, acting on the advice of counsel, and the other parties. It was a term of the settlement that the agreement should be confidential to the parties, subject only to the right of confidential disclosure to the Welsh Office and the Public Accounts Committee.

Mr. Abse

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will now place in the Library a copy of the report commissioned by the Welsh Health Authority Technical Services Organisation from Ove Arup and Partners on the structure and soundness of the Heath hospital, Cardiff.

Mr. Nicholas Edwards

I have placed a copy of the reply and appendices in the House of Commons Library.