Primary Care Trusts

I can reassure the hon. Gentleman. Charnwood and North West Leicestershire is one of the larger PCTs, and it strikes the right balance for size. It is big enough to be efficient in delivering services and small enough to be accountable, with a population of about 250,000. It is working really well, and people from all parts of the political spectrum supported it. Despite the collective efforts of three Members of Parliament, two of us Labour and one not—myself, the hon. Member for Loughborough (Mr. Reed) and the former Secretary of State for Health, the right hon. Member for Charnwood (Mr. Dorrell)—what is happening? We are becoming part of an enormous untested structure of 750,000 people, a doughnut wrapped around the city of Leicester. It is not necessarily politically driven.