HC Deb 02 May 1991 vol 190 c277W
Mr. Alex Carlile

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to commission a report on the likely total job losses in opting-out hospitals in England and Wales; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

No. Trusts are in the vanguard of the shift away from central control. They have the capacity and capability to use their new-found freedoms for the benefit of their patients.