§ Mr. Alfred MorrisTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 19 October,Official Report, column 86, if she will provide details of Government funding for the British Health Care Arts 736W Centre; and if she will now make it her policy to provide funding by her Department for Arts for Health in recognition of its advisory work on a national scale.
§ Mr. SackvilleWe have no knowledge of the funding arrangements for the British Health Care Arts Centre. The Department's policy on the arts is as contained the reply I gave the right hon. Member on 19 October, at column86.
NHS Estates, an agency of the Department, commissioned advice, on a fee-paying basis, from the British Health Care Arts Centre and others during the preparation of the guidance referred to in my earlier reply.