Results 1-7 of 7 for foundation hospital speaker:Michael Howard

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (3 Dec 2003)

Mr Michael Howard: .... The difference between us is that I am honouring our manifesto pledge and he is breaking his. I want to get back to the big conversation. If, during that, people say that they do not want his foundation hospitals, will he listen to them and withdraw the proposals?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (3 Dec 2003)

Mr Michael Howard: ...the big conversation if in this quite small conversation the Prime Minister is not prepared to answer the questions. If he is not prepared to listen to the answers that he gets on top-up fees or on foundation hospitals or on the European constitution, what on earth is the point of this ludicrous exercise? Does not he realise quite how ridiculous he is beginning to look? If he will not...

Economic and Monetary Union (10 Jul 2003)

Mr Michael Howard: ...of the open warfare in the Cabinet that preceded his first outing, I was a little surprised to see him volunteer a second. But now of course it is quite clear that, compared with the splits on foundation hospitals, Iraq and top-up fees, going back to euro factionalism is a nostalgic exercise—a welcome break, which, by contrast, almost presents a picture of unity. And on this issue at...

Economy and Public Services (12 Feb 2003)

Mr Michael Howard: ..., and to investors who have seen the stock market fall to a level far below what it was in 1997. Labour told all those people that things could only get better. What of the promises to those who rely on our hospitals and schools? They, too, have been failed by this Government. Anyone listening to the Chancellor of the Exchequer could be forgiven for thinking that none of this mattered. He...

Economy and Public Services (12 Feb 2003)

Mr Michael Howard: ...year, the Government promise better public services in return for higher taxes, but we get only the higher taxes. In the Chancellor's parallel world, public services are improving wonderfully. He told the Social Market Foundation that the Government had set out a "modern model" for the NHS. However, in the real world, a 22 per cent. increase in health spending in two years led to an...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Public Spending (12 Dec 2002)

Mr Michael Howard: ...the Chief Secretary knows, the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Health think that an important contribution to greater outputs from public spending on the health service can be made by foundation hospitals. The First Minister for Wales and the Secretary of State for Wales disagree. What is the Treasury view?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Public Spending (12 Dec 2002)

Mr Michael Howard: We know why the Chancellor did not answer the question: because he told The Guardian less than a month ago that he was opposed to foundation hospitals. He thinks that they give NHS bosses too much power, so why will the Chancellor not tell the House what he told The Guardian?