As I hope to show, this appalling trail of destruction is costing all of us gigantic sums, which we can ill afford in the middle of an economic Crisis of the Utmost Severity.

Does the Secretary of State agree with the NHS in Wales that there is a funding Crisis of the Utmost Severity, and that only one of the consequences of the crisis is a block on the capitalprogramme, which is affecting - among many others - the renal dialysis programme in Aberystwyth and the Porthmadog cottage hospital?