Friern Barnet Psychiatric Hospital

Mr. Chris Smith
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funds have been allocated to date by North East Thames regional health authority on reprovision of facilities for patients currently resident at Friern Barnet psychiatric hospital; and what funds are scheduled to be spent between the present time and September 1991.

Mr. Dorrell
The allocation of funds for the reprovision of care for the mentally ill, is a matter for the individual health authorities concerned.