Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 6:47 pm on 7 February 2006.
I am about to mention Staffordshire, so my hon. Friend might want to hold on.
The ambulance tsar, Peter Bradley, made a clear case for restructuring Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire ambulance trusts, and for a revision of the Thames Valley trust. The Government took that as an excuse—it was not in the report, and at best they might claim, as a cloak, that it was implied—to reduce the number of ambulance trusts down to nine, 10 or 11. To implement that, the NHS Appointments Commission sent out letters on