Scottish TUC

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 15 May 1991.

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Photo of Sam Galbraith Sam Galbraith , Strathkelvin and Bearsden 12:00, 15 May 1991

When the Secretary of State finally meets the STUC, will he discuss opt-out hospitals—a matter on which its affiliates must be consulted? Will he explain why yesterday in the House the Prime Minister said that decisions on opting out should be made by "medical people"? Is the Secretary of State aware that in Scotland more than 80 per cent. of medical people—the doctors—voted against opting out? Why does the Secretary of State, in the Prime Minister's words, have "so little faith" in the doctors? Why does not the Secretary of state, even at this late stage, listen to the doctors and stop the opting-out nonsense?