NHS Reorganisation

I will give way shortly. Yesterday the British Medical Association delivered a comprehensive vote of no confidence in the Government's plans. Dr Hamish Meldrum, the BMA chair, said they were"““driven by ideology rather than evidence, enshrined in ill-thought-through legislation and implemented in a rush during a major economic downturn.””" On Saturday the Lib Dems did the same. Baroness Williams called the plans ““lousy”” and a ““stealth privatisation””. I heard that very good speech for myself at the conference in Sheffield, and I hope that today the House will hear speeches by the hon. Members for Southport (John Pugh) and for St Ives (Andrew George) similar to those that they made to their party conference on Saturday. I must also say to the Minister of State, Department of Health, the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Burstow), that I hope that when he winds up this debate we do not hear the same flat and feeble apology that he gave for the Government's plans when he opened the conference debate. He was totally rejected by his party, which told him and his parliamentary colleagues that the Health and Social Care Bill must be amended.