§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, (1) pursuant to his answer of 26 October,Official Report, column 722, how much regional selective assistance has been paid up to date to Health Care International in Clydebank;
(2) whether there have been regular consultations between Health Care International in Clydebank and his Department over nurse recruitment and training; and what was the outcome;
(3) whether Health Care International in Clydebank is now free to tender for any NHS work anywhere in Britain;
(4) if he will place in the Library a copy of the terms under which his Department undertook to give regional selective assistance to Health Care International in Clydebank;
(5) what reimbursement of nurse training costs has been made by Health Care International in Clydebank in respect of the authorisation he gave to the hospital in 1987;
(6) what contacts there have been at ministerial level between the Ministry of Defence and his Department over the future of Health Care International in Clydebank; and what was the outcome;
(7) whether Health Care International in Clydebank now has exactly the same competitive status as the Western infirmary, Glasgow royal infirmary and Gartnavel general hospital when the Greater Glasgow health board seeks bids for its works.