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Harriett Baldwin
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(13 years, 1 month ago)
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Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire) (Con)
Has the right hon. Gentleman read the article in The Times today by Stephen Bubb, which says:
“When in government . . . Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary spoke of his vision for a preventive, people-centred NHS that would allow the maximum freedom for local innovation… And yet, to judge by the reaction that”
the Secretary of State’s
“Bill has provoked, one would think that a centralised, bureaucratic and too often inefficient NHS is politically sacred and permanently untouchable”?
[Interruption.] Is that the impression that the shadow Secretary of State is trying to create?
Mr Speaker
Order. I remind the House that there is a lot to get through, many Members wish to contribute, and interventions in any event should be brief.