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Debate between Natascha Engel and Helen Hayes

Wednesday 24th June 2015 Commons Chamber

[Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood) (Lab)]

I want to raise a point of substance that affects my constituents. There are young people in my constituency who would love to train as nurses and work in the NHS, but by cutting the number of training places in London by 25%, the Government have made that much harder. At the same time, when I last spoke to the recently retired chief executive of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, he told me that he was recruiting nurses in the Philippines, because there are not enough nurses—

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Natascha Engel)]

Order. When the Chair is on her feet, Members sit. I have said before that interventions need to be very short and kept to a minimum. That was too long.