§ Mrs. Dunwoodyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his answer of 29 April, Official Report, column 51. whether any patient on any Health Service waiting list has been, or could be, removed from the waiting list, without the specific agreement of their own consultant.
§ Mr. John PattenWe do not have this information. Health authorities have made their own arrangements for carrying out the exercise. It would be for the consultants to agree the conditions under which names could be removed from the lists.
§ Mrs. Dunwoodyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his answers of 29 April, Official Report, column 51, if he will explain the administrative arrangements which make central costing of the survey into National Health Service waiting lists impossible.
§ Mr. John PattenCosting information could be obtained only by inquiry of all the individual districts and hospitals involved; the expense of such an exercise would clearly be disproportionate.