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John Grogan Excerpts
Tuesday 20th March 2018

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Steve Brine Portrait Steve Brine
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That is an easy one—absolutely, yes.

John Grogan Portrait John Grogan (Keighley) (Lab)
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With a significant amount of public money at stake, should not NHS trusts that are proposing to set up subsidiary companies publish their full business cases?

Steve Barclay Portrait Stephen Barclay
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The point is that trusts are 100% owned by the NHS, so any benefit accrued from the subsidiary goes to the NHS, because it is fully owned by the public sector.