asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give an assurance that the Leeds Detoxification centre will continue to be funded after the end of its experimental period.

Before the centre opened, it was agreed by my Department with the health and local authorities in Leeds that there would be joint consideration of its future: and that if these authorities found the centre useful they would consider its financing after May 1979. The authorities are now conducting their reviews, taking account also of their financial commitments and priorities. In the light of their findings and conclusions, together with the views of the centre's management committee and information from the associated research projects sponsored by my Department, the joint consideration of the future of the centre will proceed as quickly as possible.