NHS Workforce and Service Development

Part of Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 5:07 pm on 11 October 2006.

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Photo of James Gray James Gray Conservative, North Wiltshire 5:07, 11 October 2006

The hon. Lady is making an interesting point, but would she accept the following two points? First, at least part of that greater survivability comes about as a result not of the Labour Government, but of developments in medical science that would anyhow have extended our lives, and secondly, even so, our survival rates are significantly lower than those of the whole of the continent of Europe.