§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many health centres in each of the636W English regional health authority areas have been sold to general practitioners in each year since 1987;
(2) what assessment she has made of the benefits and disbenefits of selling health centres to general practitioners.
§ Mr. SackvilleRegional health authorities and national health service trusts should regularly review their property portfolios in the context of how patient services should best be provided. Decisions about sales are for regional health authorities or individual NHS trusts to make. There are no figures available centrally showing how many sales of health centres to general practitioners have been completed since 1987.