Health Care

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:02 pm on 3 July 1995.

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Photo of Mr Nigel Spearing Mr Nigel Spearing , Newham South 4:02, 3 July 1995

Does the Secretary of State agree that what she has just said does not apply to the ambulance service, as is shown by the report from the Select Committee on Health? If, after nine debates:in the House, the ambulance service was not provided with what the Government eventually thought was necessary—they had given £5 million extra in 1991, and they gave £14 million extra last year—how can the Secretary of State say that the Government have calculated the real needs of the health service as a whole? If they got it wrong with the London ambulance service after nine debates in the House, how do we know that they will get it right for the country as a whole?