Hinchingbrooke Hospital

Valerie Vaz Excerpts

Thursday 10th November 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Burns]

The hon. Lady says that I do not know that, but surely she accepts that Labour politicians are consistent and would consistently follow their own policy. I am sure that they would be here doing so.

[Valerie Vaz (Walsall South) (Lab)]

I encourage the Minister to carry on drinking the peppermint tea, because then he will remain calm. Hinchingbrooke hospital does not have an A and E department, so what resources will be available to those NHS hospitals that have to absorb the extra patients?

[Mr Burns]

I think the hon. Lady is mistaken. I am advised that Hinchingbrooke does have an A and E—

[Valerie Vaz]

indicated dissent.

[Mr Burns]

The hon. Lady shakes her head, but of course she is a Member for the north-west, whereas I understand from the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, my hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Mr Djanogly), who is the MP for Hinchingbrooke, that it does have an A and E. I will check and write to her immediately, and no doubt if I am right and she is wrong, she will in her charming way correct the record in due course.