§ Mr. HindTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the progress of the Government's hospital building programme.
§ Mr. FreemanInformation held centrally shows there are currently 528 health building schemes, each costing over £1 million, at various stages of planning, design and construction with an estimated total value of £4.1 billion. In the next financial year capital expenditure of £1 -2 billion is planned, an increase in real terms of 43 per cent, since 1979.