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Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Mar 2004)

Mr Tim Yeo: ...cut. He promises that patients will be given more choice. Those promises, however, are at odds with the Government's instinct for control freakery. Ministers may talk a good game, but the row over foundation hospitals showed just how reluctant the Labour party actually is to allow any genuine freedom to the providers of health care. We are now asked to believe that the very Ministers who...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS Foundation Trusts (19 Nov 2003)

Mr Tim Yeo: ...and managers in the NHS. He knows that, unlike him and most Ministers, I have direct personal experience of chairing an independent charitable trust that successfully transformed an ailing NHS hospital, using the freedom that release from ministerial control bestows. I therefore now make the Secretary of State an offer on behalf of the Opposition—I do so in good faith in an attempt...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS Foundation Trusts (19 Nov 2003)

Mr Tim Yeo: ...pointed out this afternoon, they will create for the first time in half a century a two-tier NHS in England. The privileges and advantages that the Government will bestow on just a fraction of NHS hospitals will not be extended for several years to the majority of hospitals that our constituents use around the country. Indeed, if the review that the Secretary of State announced in debate...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS foundation trusts (19 Nov 2003)

Mr Tim Yeo: ...first will enjoy the respect of this House, and of those whom they represent here. We oppose the amendments—reluctantly, as I have said—for two reasons. First, they will harm those hospitals that do not receive foundation trust status. To begin with, that means the vast majority of the hospitals that our constituents use every day. Secondly, the foundation trusts established by...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS foundation trusts (19 Nov 2003)

Mr Tim Yeo: In a moment. Let us be clear: for several years, most of the hospitals that serve our constituents will not have foundation status. Only a handful—25—will qualify in the first instance, and the privileges obtained by them will be paid for by other, less fortunate hospitals.

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS foundation trusts (19 Nov 2003)

Mr Tim Yeo: ...by the amendments. In terms of the two-tier service, the victory that the Treasury scored over the Department of Health last year has particularly damaging consequences, because borrowing by foundation trusts will count against the Department of Health's overall totals. By making investment a zero-sum game, the Secretary of State has ensured that extra investment by foundation trusts will...

Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Departmental Sponsorship (21 Nov 2001)

Mr Tim Yeo: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when she last met representatives of (a) each of the national museums and galleries sponsored by her Department, (b) the British Hospitality Association, (c) the Football Association, (d) the Rugby Football Union, (e) the British Weight Lifters' Association, (f) the Lawn Tennis Association, (g) Theatres in Trust, (h) Equity, (i) PACT,...

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c: Hospice Movement (4 Feb 1993)

Mr Tim Yeo: ...would previously have received from the higher rates of income support. All this brings the Government's total funding to voluntary hospices in England since 1991 to more than £105 million., We cannot, however, be complacent. Too many people die in hospital instead of in a hospice or at home with proper care and support. The challenge for the national health service is to respond...