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Part of Debate on the Address – in the House of Commons at 1:49 pm on 11 December 2008.

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Photo of Alan Johnson Alan Johnson The Secretary of State for Health 1:49, 11 December 2008

Once again, the Opposition use that tactic. They said in a press release issued in summer 2007 that 29 hospitals were going to close; immediately, 15 of those hospitals pointed out how wrong they were. A hospital that they said was going to lose its accident and emergency department did not even have an A and E department. Then, the Opposition moved to arguing that 1,117 GP practices would close if GP-led health centres opened, because, they said, each centre would have 20 GPs. In fact, the most each centre will have is five. They were wrong on every count.