Hartley Hospital (No. 2)

EDM number 1489 in 1993-94, proposed by Gordon Prentice on 11/07/1994.

That this House welcomes the decision of Sir Donald Wilson the Chairman of the North Western Regional Health Authority, to disclose to the honourable Member for Pendle, in view of his continuing interest, the ú325,000 sale price for Hartley Hospital but regrets Sir Donald felt it necessary to call upon the honourable Member to bear in mind that the financial details of individual transactions should remain confidential to protect the interests of the purchaser and takes the view that it is in the public interest for the sale of large National Health Service land and property assets to be individually itemised in the accounts of regional health authorities; urges the Accounting Standards Board to examine ways of making such accounts more transparent; and calls upon the Secretary of State for Health to make it her policy to disclose the sale price of surplus National Health Service hospitals and other large assets to the public as soon as the sales are completed.

This motion has been signed by a total of 37 MPs.