National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill

Steve Rotheram Excerpts
Friday 21st November 2014

(10 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Clive Efford Portrait Clive Efford
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All Governments have lessons to learn. This party is not saying that it has nothing to learn, but it wants to end the privatisation of the national health service. We must understand one thing: next May is when we have to fight to save our national health service. If we continue under this Act to keep privatising our services, we will not have a national health service as we understand it.

Steve Rotheram Portrait Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton) (Lab)
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Like me, is my hon. Friend amazed by the faux indignation of some Government Members? Those Members will be the ones who will benefit from the donations of some of the private sector companies that are winning the contracts in our NHS service.

Clive Efford Portrait Clive Efford
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We have seen the names—64 of them. We will see how they vote today, and then let the public know what they are doing with our national health service.