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Mr. Patnick
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what resources have been allocated for 1989–90 to the waiting list fund; and of this what proportion will be allocated direct to regional health authorities.
Mr. Mellor
The sum of £31 million will be made available through the waiting list fund in 1989–90. Of this, £25·3 million has already been allocated to regional and special health authorities to fund projects aimed at reducing the time patients have to wait for hospital treatment. The remaining £5·7 million will be targeted, through regions, at health districts with particular waiting problems.