HC Deb 19 September 2002 vol 390 c335W
Ms Shipley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 13 March 2002,Official Report, column 1140W, on the Design Champion, if he will make a statement on the Design Champion's input into (a) Walsall Design Examplar and (b) South Manchester Primary Care Trust Development. [73640]

Mr. Lammy

In his capacity as ministerial design champion for the Department, my noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, is personally mentoring four schemes. Walsall and South Manchester were on the original list but the final list includes the following fourCentral Manchester Teaching Hospitals National Health Service Trust University Hospitals Birmingham National Health Service Trust/South Birmingham Mental Health Trust Braunstone Integrated Health and Social Care Leicester City West Primary Care Trust Walsall Hospitals National Health Service Trust Design Exemplar

My noble Friend has visited and had meetings with the trust project teams at Central Manchester and University Hospitals Birmingham.

He has met the Braunstone project team, trust Chief Executive and Chair. Visits to Braunstone and Walsall are being arranged.