§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the £12.8 milllion included in his Department's 1996–97 expenditure on the national health service in Wales as a repayment by national health service trusts to his Department. [9959]
§ Mr. HagueThe £12.8 million represents the public expenditure cover necessary to enable the trusts to make repayments which effectively cancel out a liability from previous years.