§ Lord Ironsideasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether, following their decision to locate the first MoD hospital unit at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth they have decided the location of the remaining two.
Earl HoweTaking account of a range of defence-related factors, and in consultation with the Department of Health and the NHS, we have selected the Frimley Park Hospital NHS Trust in Surrey and the Peterborough Hospitals NHS Trust in Cambridgeshire as the sites for the new Ministry of Defence hospital units. Detailed contractual negotiations, which began with the trusts concerned last March, are progressing satisfactorily. We aim to have units fully established at these locations by April 1996.