§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give details, including the date it was submitted, of the preparatory application by Waltham Forest health service to become a self-governing trust from April 1992.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyWaltham Forest health authority originally submitted an expression of interest in becoming an NHS trust in August 1990. A subsequent expression in which Claybury hospital was excluded from the configuration of the proposed trust was submitted on 12 December 1990.
The revised expression of interest was announced by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on 14 January this year at column 418.