HC Deb 13 November 1989 vol 160 c43W
Mr. Shersby

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish in theOfficial Report a list of the National Health Service hospitals which he has approved for self-governance.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply my right hon. and learned Friend gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Maidstone (Miss Widdecombe) on 3 November at columns389–90. We will not be able to approve any NHS trusts until Parliament has given approval to the necessary legislation. A total of 187 expressions of interest in NHS trust status have been received by the Department.