Clause 19 - Abolition of NHS Tribunal
Health and Social Care Bill
9:30 am
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
Surely the Minister is not suggesting that his predecessor as Minister of State at the Department of Health—now the Secretary of State for Health—overlooked such important matters when he was in the post. He would surely have had the forward-looking qualities needed to see precisely the problems that the Minister has identified.