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Greg Mulholland Excerpts
Tuesday 25th November 2014

(10 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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We are not rationing services. In fact, we are doing 1 million more operations every year than were done under the previous Government. I will tell the right hon. Gentleman why that financial pressure exists: we have an ageing population, with nearly 1 million more over-65s than four years ago, and huge pressure to deliver good care in the wake of the Francis report. The NHS will be supported if we have a strong economy that can fund real-terms increases in health spending—something that never happens if the deficit is forgotten.

Greg Mulholland Portrait Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West) (LD)
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My constituent, six-year-old Sam Brown, is one of 100 people with the rare disease Morquio. His family live in a state of anxiety because they do not know whether the drug Vimizim will be approved for further use on 15 December. Will a Minister please meet me and Katy and Simon, Sam’s parents, to give Sam the Christmas present he needs and to keep Sam smiling?

George Freeman Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (George Freeman)
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I would be delighted to meet my hon. Friend and his constituents to review that very important issue.