NHS Reorganisation

I gave way to the hon. Gentleman, who I thought was in his place at the start of the debate. In that case, he will have heard me say that one reason for having an Opposition day debate on both health and education is that we see many of the same ideological fingerprints over the plans for education and for health. These are Tory ideological fingerprints, and I hope that this will become clearer as the debate progresses. Let us make no mistake: if these changes go ahead, patients will rightly question whether GPs' decisions are about the best treatment for them or about the best interest of the GP budget and consortium business. The public will find ““commercial in confidence”” stamped over many of the most important decisions taken about our NHS services. Members of Parliament wanting to hold Ministers to account in future when hospitals go bust or there are no contracted services for constituents or there is a serious failure in the system will be told, ““It's nothing to do with me””.