I cannot speak about Huntingdonshire, but it is clearly a sham when we always have the same answers. Let us take the regionalisation of the ambulance service. Is it not amazing? We ask those in the charge of the police, and curiously enough, they suggest the regions as the natural way of policing. We ask people about the fire service, and curiously enough, a whole lot of other people make exactly the same proposal—that for the fire service, the region is the ideal unit. We then ask the ambulance people—well, we do not ask too many of them, but we ask those who might come to an answer—and what do they say? Surprisingly enough, they think that the regions are the answer. We then to the SHA, and it says that regions are the answer. Regions are the answer because the Government want them to be the answer, not because anyone inside those organisations thinks so.
NHS Reorganisation
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Deben
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 7 February 2006.
It occurred during Opposition day on NHS Reorganisation.
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