Clause 2 - Power to create combined fire and rescue authorities
Fire and Rescue Services Bill
2:30 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
It just occurs to me to ask the hon. Gentleman whether he thought it rather odd that the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hall Green was intervening in the way that he did in order to suggest that our constituents are not interested in the mechanisms behind public service delivery. I was going to invite the hon. Member for Teignbridge to ask the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hall Green why he thinks that so many of his colleagues felt compelled to vote against their own Government on the issue of foundation hospitals, which is surely an issue of the organisational structure—