Warley, Halifax

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Hospitals – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 December 1954.

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Photo of Mr Dryden Brook Mr Dryden Brook , Halifax 12:00, 13 December 1954

Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that the man who left this estate to the Halifax Infirmary also left £50,000 for hospital purposes? Could not the Minister consider the release of that sum, to which the people of Halifax think that they have a moral if not a legal right? Does the right hon. Gentleman think it equitable that towns which before the passing of the National Health Act made more adequate provision out of their own resources for hospital purposes should now be penalised in favour of those which were more parsimonious in their expenditure?