NHS Reorganisation

The House would agree that there is probably no magic number in relation to the size of population that is appropriate for a primary care trust, but if 150 primary care trusts covering the 50 million population of Great Britain—just over 300,000 people per PCT—seems appropriate, why are we getting rid of a successful one, Charnwood and North West Leicestershire, which serves a population of about 250,000, which is about the right size, which is big enough to deliver services, and which is effective and small enough to be accountable to the three MPs that represent its area? Why is that being absorbed into a 650,000 mega-doughnut outside the city of Leicester?