HC Deb 16 March 1992 vol 205 cc867-8W
Mr. Peter Bottomley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the timetable for St. Thomas's hospital to become an NHS trust.

Mr. Dorrell

St. Thomas's was established as a NHS trust on 1 November 1991 and will, subject to the recommendations to be made to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State by the inquiry headed by Sir Bernard Tomlinson, become fully operational on 1 April 1993.