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Let me deal with this, if I can, once and for all: this is an interim report. If I had come to the House today with Lord Carter's final report, I can quite imagine that the cry from the Opposition Benches would have been, ““These are fundamental questions for our society, democracy and economy, yet the Government have come along and imposed solutions straight away.”” I believe that the process that has been established is the right one. As I said at the end of my statement, our wish now is to engage Members from all parts of the House on these incredibly important considerations. The process follows that of the Darzi review, which I think most people would consider to have been successful in stimulating a debate about the future of the national health service. I am sure that the business managers and the Leader of the House will have heard what the hon. Gentleman said about a full day's debate, but he is absolutely right to say that the questions are crucial for the country and need to be debated by Members in this House. That is why I made the statement today.