§ Mr. IrvingTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how he proposes to correct the tendency in regional hospital plans to emphasise hospital closures as a central plank of strategy for the mentally ill and to be unspecific about how local needs have been assessed; and how the new pattern of services is to be developed and resourced.
§ Mr. NewtonI refer my hon. Friend to my reply to him on 8 February 1988 at column97.