To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he is yet able to announce a decision on the proposed new Health Service development at Lewisham; and if he will make a statement.

Agreement has recently been reached on a major new development, known as phase II, at Lewisham hospital, the cost of which will be around £27 million. This scheme should provide, from the mid-1990s, a greatly improved range of health care to local people. The development complements the equally impressive phase III scheme at Guy's hospital in the north of Lewisham and North Southwark health authority costing around £75 million.