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Baroness Morgan of Cotes Excerpts
Tuesday 18th October 2011

(13 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Lansley Portrait Mr Lansley
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It is an independent review and I can assure the hon. Lady that that is indeed the case. It will be based on the evidence. I am sure that she will have heard the response to a debate earlier in the year by the Minister of State, my right hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Mr Burns), who said that while the review has put forward options for consideration, it should not be constrained to consider only those options.

Baroness Morgan of Cotes Portrait Nicky Morgan (Loughborough) (Con)
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Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the criteria for the review remain the same; that the rather strange remarks—about more people having voted for one option but more organisations having voted for another—have not affected them; and that those criteria will be used to judge the decision?

Lord Lansley Portrait Mr Lansley
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Happily, I can entirely confirm that.