Health and Social Care Bill

Michael Dugher Excerpts
Tuesday 13th March 2012

(12 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Lansley Portrait Mr Lansley
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I do not think the right hon. Gentleman should quote Cromwell to a Cambridgeshire MP; I think I know more about Cromwell than he does. [Hon. Members: “Ooh!”] I might also tell him—

Michael Dugher Portrait Michael Dugher (Barnsley East) (Lab)
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What do you know about the health service?

Lord Lansley Portrait Mr Lansley
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What do I know about the health service? I have been at the Government and Opposition Dispatch Boxes for nearly nine years speaking on behalf of the national health service. Before that I was on the Select Committee on Health, looking out for the interests of the health service, and before that my father was working—[Interruption.]