§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether he will institute a study into the causes of the revenue shortfall for 1990–91 of the South Glamorgan health authority.
§ Mr. GristWe have no plans to do so at the present time. Health authorities have a statutory duty to manage services within available resources. We would therefore expect South Glamorgan health authority to plan accordingly when rolling forward its financial plan and capital programme for the next 10 years and preparing its business plan for 1990–91. These plans will be scrutinised by the Department as part of the annual review process in the course of the next few months; and officials will be seeking to ensure that they are realistically based in terms of prospective resources and provide a clear agenda for the management of the authority's services within those resource assumptions.