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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 2 March 2005.

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Photo of Tony Blair Tony Blair Prime Minister 11:30, 2 March 2005

May I say how delighted I will be if we spend the next few months arguing about the national health service and which party would be best left in charge of it? When the right hon. and learned Gentleman was a member of the previous Government, waiting lists indeed rose by 400,000. People were waiting more than 18 months for their operations. We had hospital buildings that were virtually falling to bits and cuts in the number of beds. He mentioned high-dependency beds, but we have increased the number of those beds.