Oral Answers to Questions

Stephen Hepburn Excerpts

Thursday 25th April 2019 Commons Chamber

[Dr Fox]

As I said, it is very important that NHS policy and management are decided by British political debate, not from outside. We have had considerable success in utilising the private sector to augment the NHS. As Andy Burnham said, the previous Labour Government worked with the private sector to bring down NHS waiting lists, and they came right down. I would hope that any future Labour Government would have exactly the same freedoms to use the same policies.

[Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow) (Lab)]

T5. Donald Trump is an “America first” US President, so does that mean that in any future trade deals with the US we will be “Britain second”, to our disadvantage?

[Dr Fox]

Obviously not.