§ Dr. SpinkTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress he has made on the choice of location for his Department's two new hospital units.
§ Mr. SoamesTaking account of a range of Defence-related factors, and in consultation with the Department of Health and the NHS, we have selected as the sites for the new Ministry of Defence hospital units the Frimley Park Hospital NHS trust in Surrey and the Peterborough Hospitals NHS trust in Cambridgeshire. Final contractual negotiations will now begin with the trusts concerned. We shall aim to have units fully established at these locations by April 1996.