§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what consultations he has had with the chairman of the South Glamorgan health authority concerning its public relations contract with Harrison Cowley; what level of expenditure is planned under this contract; which other health authorities in Wales have such contracts, with which public relations agencies and for what value; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesNeither my right hon. Friend nor I have discussed the public relations arrangements in place in South Glamorgan health authority with its chairman, though he has been congratulated on the professionalism with which his authority presented its waiting times policy to local people.
Responsibility for locally based public relations in the NHS rests firmly with individual district health authorities and family health services authorities. Details of the kind sought are therefore best obtained directly from the authorities themselves.