Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 28 June 1995.
Is the Government's plan eventually to privatise all NHS trusts, either by management buy-outs or by takeovers by companies such as BUPA and AMI, in terms of which Stonehaven hospital is the first classic example? Will that development be linked to private health insurance, giving us a fully private health care system? When will the Government come clean about their true plans?