Competitive Tendering

Mr. Dobson
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish details of the progress being made by health authorities in putting their services out to tender in the manner of the answer of 25 November 1986, Official Report column 214.

Mr. Newton
[pursuant to his reply, 9 March 1987. c. 73]: I refer the hon. Member to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich (Mr. Bowden) on 19 March.