Clause 16
Health and Social Care Bill
6:45 pm
Angela Browning (Deputy Chairman, The Conservative Party; Tiverton and Honiton, Conservative)
I will give way in a moment. I will not bore the Committee, because I have told the House enough times, but I remember when my step-father was in the last few weeks of his life and in hospital with cancer. He had macular degeneration and his eyesight was very poor. I once went in to see him when they brought the food round and he was having sandwiches. I said to him, “Why are you having sandwiches; what else was there?” Because his eyesight was poor and he knew that he could not cope with a knife and fork and a plate of hot food on his own, he had opted for sandwiches for three days because he felt that he could eat those tidily on his own, without any support. It was very sad. As hon. Members can imagine, I went to find the person who was in charge to have a little word about that.