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Baroness Keeley Excerpts
Tuesday 13th January 2015

(9 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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I agree with that, and I hope that the hon. Gentleman will campaign to make sure that the Northern Ireland Executive put the extra money they have received as part of the Chancellor’s autumn statement into precisely that—good GP services for the people of Northern Ireland.

Baroness Keeley Portrait Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South) (Lab)
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It is increasingly recognised that the causes of the A and E crisis include the closure of walk-in centres, such as the one in Little Hulton in my constituency and this Government’s savage cuts to council budgets, leading in Salford to 1,000 fewer people getting care packages funded this year. When will the Health Secretary start to take responsibility for his own Government’s policies and do something to ensure investment in social care to ease that pressure on A and E? The better care fund is not the answer.