Health Services (Gloucestershire)

We have suffered particularly in Gloucestershire because the Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire strategic health authority had the biggest deficit in the country, at some £100 million. We are suffering because of the mismanagement in Bath and Bristol, and because for many years we have not had the capital allocations that other areas have had. Now the Minister is top-slicing us and giving some of our money away to Wiltshire, so we really are being hammered in Gloucestershire. I hope that she will take that into account.