I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. In my first two weeks as an MP, I paid a visit to the local PCT in Leicester, and in a meeting with the chief executive I asked how the PCT would cope with the immediate 35% cuts in management imposed by the coalition Government. The answer truly shocked me: I was told, ““It will be no problem at all, because we have already increased our management by 50% in the past year.”” Will the right hon. Gentleman accept that under the previous Government's watch, the PCTs became the bloated bureaucracies that now need reforming?
Health and Social Care Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Andrew Bridgen
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 31 January 2011.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Health and Social Care Bill.
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