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Hospitals (Nucleus System)

Volume 131: debated on Tuesday 12 April 1988

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29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on the use being made of the nucleus system of hospital design.

I refer my hon. Friend to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Fulham (Mr. Carrington) earlier today.

38.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how many hospitals halve been built to the nucleus design since its inception.

So far 43 hospital building schemes, each costing over £1 million, have been completed using the nucleus standard design and briefing system; a further 22 nucleus schemes are under construction. We estimate that a total of at least £30 million has been saved by the use of this standardised approach in comparison with the conventional construction.