Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between David Morris and Dan Poulter

Tuesday 16th April 2013 Commons Chamber

[David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale) (Con)]

17. Whether there are plans to close the accident and emergency department at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Dr Daniel Poulter)]

I would like to reassure my hon. Friend that there are no plans and never have been any plans to close the accident and emergency department at Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

[David Morris]

I thank my hon. Friend for that robust answer. Does he agree that the local Labour party fabricated the scare story that the A and E department was going to close? It was never going to close, as he has just stated. Will he assist me in taking the local Labour party’s bogus petition offline?

[Dr Poulter]

My hon. Friend is right to highlight the fact that it is wrong of any political party—in this case, the Labour party—to focus on scaremongering when there is no basis in truth. At no point have there been plans to close Royal Lancaster Infirmary.