NHS Outsourcing and Privatisation

Hugh Gaffney Excerpts

Wednesday 23rd May 2018 Commons Chamber

[Hugh Gaffney (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) (Lab)]

I thank the NHS’s public service workers for all that they do for us. They have stood against cuts under Tory austerity and a decade of SNP cuts in Scotland. Scotland’s NHS workers are underpaid, undervalued and under-resourced while millions of pounds are spent on agency staff. As Richard Leonard, the Scottish Labour leader, said recently, private companies are

“sucking money out of the NHS”,

but Labour in Scotland is ready to stand up to Tory austerity and SNP cuts.

[Mr Speaker]

Thank you very much indeed.