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NHS Services (Hertfordshire)

Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 12 July 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Mike Hancock. The answering member was Baroness Winterton of Doncaster.
Westmister hall adjournment debate on NHS services in Hertfordshire.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
448 c463-88WH 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department of Health
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 448 c488WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I must bring the debate to an end. I thank all those Members who worked wondrously well to al...
Mark Prisk | 448 c476WH (Link to this contribution) I think that that leads quite accurately to the central point that concerns us all. We simply seek o...

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Oliver Heald | 448 c476WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is also odd that people in the Secretary of State’s constituency g...
Mark Prisk | 448 c475-6WH (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend rightly highlights, the trust has been punished. Genuine concern has also been cau...
John Pugh | 448 c479-80WH (Link to this contribution) I was not suggesting that they were community hospitals, but the descriptions are relative, and we c...
Mike Penning | 448 c479WH (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the hon. Gentleman has been to my part of Hertfordshire, but we do not have a sm...
John Pugh | 448 c479WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate not only the hon. Member for South-West Hertfordshire (Mr. Gauke) but all hon. Member...
Mike Penning | 448 c476-9WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Hertfordshire (Mr. Gauke) on obtaining the d...
Lord Lilley | 448 c466-7WH (Link to this contribution) I echo the tribute paid by my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Hertfordshire (Mr. Gauke) to NHS...
Anne Main | 448 c467-70WH (Link to this contribution) I almost do not know where to begin. Many of us share services; we do not all have our own hospitals...
Grant Shapps | 448 c465WH (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend had the chance to reflect on the fact that only two areas are now promised invest...
David Gauke | 448 c465-6WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a characteristically astute point. He has been a tireless campaigner for the ne...
David Gauke | 448 c463-5WH (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. There is a broader issue. To open out the debate for a moment, Hertfordshi...
Grant Shapps | 448 c471WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and we look today for an assurance about the super-hospital at Hatfield tha...
Grant Shapps | 448 c470-1WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely—I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point. I have been through cancer; I wen...
Anne Main | 448 c471WH (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, I defeated the former MP for St. Albans. During the election, we repeatedly...
Grant Shapps | 448 c470WH (Link to this contribution) I was elected to the House after defeating a previous Health Minister, Melanie Johnson, on the subje...
James Clappison | 448 c470WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend recollect that when the hospital was originally announced, amid the claims that ...
Grant Shapps | 448 c474WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentions the £66 million, but does he agree that the number seems to go up by £1.5 mi...
Oliver Heald | 448 c474WH (Link to this contribution) Well, it will clearly be higher still. We really are in an appalling situation, and my hon. Friend m...
Oliver Heald | 448 c474WH (Link to this contribution) Yes we do. In our area, the average is £5,820; in the Minister’s constituency, it is £2,710. We are ...
James Clappison | 448 c471-3WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Hertfordshire (Mr. Gauke) on obtaining this ...
Oliver Heald | 448 c473-4WH (Link to this contribution) I join the general congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Hertfordshire (Mr. Ga...
Oliver Heald | 448 c475WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, there are also very high figures for learning disabilities and mental health problems. We there...
Mark Prisk | 448 c475WH (Link to this contribution) May I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Hertfordshire (Mr. Gauke). This de...
Speaker | 448 c463WH (Link to this contribution) Hon. Members may take their jackets off, if they so desire. We have an interesting debate this after...
David Gauke | 448 c463WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak this afternoon on changes to NHS services in Hertfordshir...
Oliver Heald | 448 c463WH (Link to this contribution) Would not another way of putting it be to say that if we had roughly the same amount as the Minister...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 448 c487WH (Link to this contribution) I need to move on, because the point that I want to come to—
Stephen O'Brien | 448 c488WH (Link to this contribution) They are all Labour constituencies.
Speaker | 448 c487WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Let the Minister have some time to speak.
Oliver Heald | 448 c487WH (Link to this contribution) That is the point. Will the Minister give way on that?
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 448 c487WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman well knows that the point that I was making was that if the Conservatives are say...
Mark Prisk | 448 c487WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. She is very generous. She says that it is not possible...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 448 c487WH (Link to this contribution) I need to move on, because I have only five minutes left, and I want to address some of the other po...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 448 c486-7WH (Link to this contribution) But the hon. Gentleman cannot have it both ways. He talks about a level playing field, but there wil...
Speaker | 448 c488WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Everyone listened with great tolerance and understanding when others were speaking. Let the M...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 448 c488WH (Link to this contribution) Actually, it is about where there is deprivation. It is quite wrong to suggest that the way to deal ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 448 c488WH (Link to this contribution) I do not think that they like it, Mr. Hancock. It is true that deficits have built up in Hertfordsh...
John Pugh | 448 c480-1WH (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely the point that I would re-emphasise, as similar problems are faced in many areas....
Speaker | 448 c480WH (Link to this contribution) Order. That sounds like another speech.
Anne Main | 448 c480WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about the same distance as between Watford and Hemel Hempstead, but would h...
Mike Penning | 448 c486WH (Link to this contribution) I do not think that anyone here is saying that everyone in every area should get identical funding. ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 448 c486WH (Link to this contribution) No, that is not the approach that I am taking. The approach that I am taking is to challenge the ass...
Grant Shapps | 448 c486WH (Link to this contribution) I appreciate what the Minister is saying about health inequalities, but surely the way to tackle ine...
Speaker | 448 c481WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member is entitled to put a view about the consultation, but I remind hon. Members that we ...
Lord Lilley | 448 c481WH (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Hancock. Is the hon. Gentleman’s speech in order, as it is not about Hertfo...
Stephen O'Brien | 448 c481WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Hertfordshire (Mr. Gauke) on securing ...
John Pugh | 448 c481WH (Link to this contribution) I shall finish shortly, as I said I would, although I also said that I would make some general remar...
Mark Prisk | 448 c482WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend rightly highlighted many of the financial issues, but is he concerned about the const...
Stephen O'Brien | 448 c482WH (Link to this contribution) Having congratulated my hon. Friend on securing the debate, I also pay tribute to the measured, seri...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 448 c485-6WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for South-West Hertfordshire (Mr. Gauke) on securing the debate...
Stephen O'Brien | 448 c483-5WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is correct. Anybody with any management experience would know that that is precisely ...
Subjects
Hospitals
Health services
NHS
Primary care trusts
Hertfordshire
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