HC Deb 11 April 1989 vol 150 cc471-3W
Dr. Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the total amount of money raised towards the work of each hospital in Wales from voluntary and charitable sources since 1979.

Mr. Grist

The information requested is not collected centrally.

Dr. Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much money has been raised through public appeals, donations and other voluntary and charitable sources towards the cost of each whole body scanner purchased for National Health Service use in Wales since 1979.

Mr. Grist

This information is not held centrally.

Dr. Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales which National Health Service hospitals in Wales at present have whole body scanner facilities; when the equipment was installed in each case; and which hospitals are planned to be provided with such facilities anew or to replace obsolete facilities.

Mr. Grist

The total receipts from the sale of local authority dwellings in Wales for the period requested is shown in the table. The proportion of those receipts allocated to the housing budget is not held centrally.

Mr. Grist

The following hospitals in Wales have whole body scanning facilities installed as shown:

Hospital Year of installation
East Glamorgan Hospital, Church Village 1988
Llandough Hospital, Penarth 1988
Morriston Hospital, Swansea 1986
Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny 1987
Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport 1987
Singleton Hospital, Swansea 1989
University Hospital of Wales 1984 and 1987
Velindre Hospital, Cardiff 1988
West Wales General Hospital, Carmarthen 1987
Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, Rhyl 1987
Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor 1988
Ysbyty Maelor, Wrexham 1987

The Welsh Office has at present no plans to provide additional whole body scanning facilities although their availability and disposition is to be reviewed. It will be for health authorities to make appropriate arrangements for the replacement of equipment.

Dr. Thomas

to ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether all outstanding disputes with developers and contractors engaged in work on ysbyty Gwynedd have now been resolved satisfactorily; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Grist

All disputes with the designers for this hospital scheme have been resolved but there remain outstanding disputes with contractors for the works.

The Welsh Health Common Services Authority continues to withhold £130,000 from IDC Ltd. to pay for remedial work to windows and cavities in the residential buildings, where further remedial work may be necessary to modify some staircase balustrades and to repair defective wall ties. Liability for these items has not yet been determined.

In the main hospital buildings there are items in dispute associated with the quality of the floor screeds in ground floor circulation areas and with the adequacy of fixings for suspended ceilings. These items are the subject of negotiations presently with the main building contractor Kyle Steward Ltd.

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