National Health Service (Pay)

Part of Opposition Day – in the House of Commons at 5:59 pm on 15 July 1985.

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Photo of Mr Jerry Hayes Mr Jerry Hayes , Harlow 5:59, 15 July 1985

I shall not give way, out of deference to all those hon. Members who want to speak.

I support the Government's policy and the amount of money that they have put into the Health Service—20 per cent. in real terms since 1978. Since then there have been 12 per cent. more in-patients, 45 per cent. more day care attendances, 52 per cent. more patients accepted for kidney failure treatment and 112 per cent. more heart bypass operations. It would be foolish and churlish to ignore that.

I ask my right hon. and learned Friend the Minister to consider generously in the next financial settlement the plight of authorities, such as mine of West Essex, which have shown that they are prepared to make themselves cost-effective and put themselves on a commercial footing and which are not RAWP gainers but RAWP losers.