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Dr. Lynne Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will write to the chairs of all health authorities with a psychiatric hospital due to close by the year 2000 to ask for evidence to satisfy him that there are adequate replacement services. [12292]
Mr. Bowis
The national health service executive have already made it clear that no psychiatric hospital should close until appropriate replacement services are in place.