Ministerial Correction

Ben Gummer Excerpts
Thursday 2nd July 2015

(9 years, 4 months ago)

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Ben Gummer Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Ben Gummer)
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I would like to inform the House of two inaccuracies in a statement I made in response to the Opposition day debate on A&E services in the House of Commons and to correct the record.

First, I stated that the number of training places for nurses,

“is now at a record level.”—[Official Report, 24 June 2015; Vol. 597, c. 921.]

Nurse training commissions are at near record levels, following an increase of training commissions of 14% over the last two years.

Secondly, I referred to the Salford Royal Hospital,

“saving £5 billion a year.”—[Official Report, 24 June 2015; Vol. 597, c. 924.]

when the correct figure is “£5 million a year.”

[HCWS79]