Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Wes Streeting and Karin Smyth

Tuesday 21st October 2025 Commons Chamber

[The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Wes Streeting)]

We have.

[Karin Smyth]

As my right hon. Friend has just said, we have delivered on that commitment. The hon. Member talks about the reorganisation being a distraction. If her party had focused taxpayers’ money on patient services rather than ballooning bureaucracy, with costs increasing both among providers and through ICBs, we would not have inherited the mess that we did, and would be able to roll out programmes more effectively. We have committed to doing that.