Five Year Forward View

Alex Cunningham Excerpts
Thursday 23rd October 2014

(10 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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They are not forced against their will to outsource. They make the decisions as to where they want to purchase services from, and they do so on the basis of what is best for patients. Just like the primary care trusts that they succeeded, they have to follow European law in the way that they do that.

Alex Cunningham Portrait Alex Cunningham (Stockton North) (Lab)
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The growing funding gap over the next five years is a real cause for concern. Can the Secretary of State tell me whether, after five years of changing plans, scrutiny and prevarication, we will finally get approval from his Department and the Treasury for the new North Tees and Hartlepool hospital, or will I have to wait for my right hon. Friend the Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) to approve it after the election?

Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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I have met the chief executive involved and heard their case for that, and we are processing it as fast as we can.