§ Mr. GallieTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what financial arrangements are being made for the Royal 603W Scottish national hospital and community NHS trust which was dissolved on 30 September 1994.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonPursuant to the dissolution of the Royal Scottish national hospital and community NHS trust, on 30 September 1994, and its reconfiguration with Forth Valley Healthcare a directly managed unit, as Central Scotland Healthcare NHS trust on 1 October 1994, my right hon. Friend proposes to create new originating capital debt for the new trust equal to the net assets transferred to it and therefore to remit the outstanding debt of the dissolved trust.
The operations consequent on the reconfiguration involve no loss to the Exchequer. Her Majesty's Treasury has today presented a minute to the House giving the particulars and circumstances of the proposed remission which it has approved in principle.