HC Deb 10 March 1987 vol 112 cc155-6W
37. Mr. Duffy

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he is satisfied that among the principal objectives of the Trent regional strategic plan the additional funding for services for the elderly will be available to meet the 1993–94 target; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Currie

Trent regional health authority's strategic plan was approved by Ministers in 1986 on the basis that its objectives could be met within the long term resource assumptions issued to authorities and that it was therefore affordable. The funds that we have made available to Trent since 1984, together with the region's own cost improvement programme, have exceeded the average annual growth rates in resources on which the plan was based. The regional health authority is closely monitoring annual progress towards the plan's strategic aims to assess what action is needed in the light of that progress and of any changes in circumstances.