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Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Ministerial Speeches (19 Nov 2003)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...in rural areas ( 28 October 2003) MoS (Environment) (Michael Meacher) SW scoping study into impacts of climate change ( 22 January) Parliamentary Sustainable Waste Group ( 28 January) HCIMA—hospitable climates ( 28 January) Adam Smith Institute ( 29 January) Women's Environmental Network seminar on real nappies ( 10 February) Gene Futures conference ( 11 February) Fabian Society ( 11...

Orders of the Day — Health Authorities Bill (12 Dec 1994)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...operations were cancelled on or after the day of admission in the three months between July and September in London and the south-east alone. Recently, the surgical directorate at Whittington hospital in London decided to cancel all—yes, all—non-urgent surgery except for patients of GP fundholders. In Staffordshire last week, eight out of 11 consultants cast a vote of no...

Health and Social Security (22 Nov 1994)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...remarks. But when she was questioned at another press conference, she blurted out a ringing endorsement of Mr. Lilley and his bona fides. The Secretary of State endorses Roy Lilley's vision that a hospital should be run like a giant store, with the major imperatives being maximum throughput and commercial gain. That may be Mr. Lilley's vision of the national health service. It is not what...

Health and Social Security (22 Nov 1994)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...to be with us now—complained to a conference on health managers that there was too much jargon, and that it was about time that they got out from behind their desks. He said: When I visit a hospital I would like to be greeted with news of medical triumphs … not with more views on hospital reorganisation. I never thought to see the day when I would agree with the Secretary of...

Opposition Day: The National Health Service (25 Oct 1994)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...they do not like the fact that the Government are presiding over such a reduction in health service care. Perhaps most telling of all, within the private sector the share provided by charitable hospitals has fallen from 57 per cent. to 37 per cent. since 1980, while the share provided by hospitals run for profit—run explicitly as businesses to make money—has grown from 42.5...