NHS Reorganisation

The hon. Gentleman wanted to get that in. I have got to know him well over the years and suggest that one reason why he lost his seat at one election was the way in which the Conservatives ran the NHS. Let me come back to the serious problems caused by reorganisation in Cumbria. In 2002, I wrote a letter to the chief executive of the North Cumbria health authority, who has now retired. I said that the proposals being put forward for my area—the hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Julia Goldsworthy) used this term—were a ““dog’s dinner””.