NHS: Risk Register

Lord Tebbit Excerpts
Tuesday 15th May 2012

(12 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Earl Howe Portrait Earl Howe
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I acknowledge that I did not answer that question and apologise to the noble Lord for not having done so last week. The whole issue of stakeholder support is one that the risk register addresses, as he will see from the document that we published. I do not recall the specific issue of waiting times to see one’s GP arising in the risk register for the simple reason that, although I acknowledge that it is currently a problem in some parts of the country, particularly London, that is not a direct result of anything that the Government are doing in our reform programme.

Lord Tebbit Portrait Lord Tebbit
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My Lords, would my noble friend decline to take lessons in these matters from those who supported former Prime Minister Blair in not publishing a full and frank assessment of the intelligence reports on which he committed this country to a war?