HC Deb 16 January 1990 vol 165 c193W
Mr. Barry Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will take steps to introduce a scheme of financial assistance to voluntary hospices for Her Majesty's Government to match pound for pound, up to 50 per cent. of running costs, money raised by the voluntary sector.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Baldry) on 15 December 1989 at columns846–47.

Mr. Barry Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will visit the Hospice of the Good Shepherd, Backford, near Chester, to meet the medical director to discuss the work of the hospice.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

We would be pleased to consider an invitation from the hospice.