[Un-allotted Half Day] — Health and Social Care Bill

Part of Opposition Day – in the House of Commons at 7:00 pm on 13 March 2012.

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Photo of Priti Patel Priti Patel Conservative, Witham 7:00, 13 March 2012

As in the many other debates that we have had on this Bill, there is a strong sense of déjà vu here today. Opposition Members grind out the same old arguments over and over again to attack the Government. They spin the same misleading, scaremongering lines about privatisation. They proclaim the end of the NHS and talk down the medical professionals and patients who will be empowered by the Bill. They continue to support the bureaucracy that drains vital resources away from front-line care, certainly in my constituency. [ Interruption. ] As he did the last time we debated this, when I mentioned that my constituency had very little front-line local NHS care, Mr Reed arrogantly sneers—