Part of Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 2:53 pm on 22 February 2012.
I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way, which Alan Johnson did not do.
Does my hon. Friend agree that the speech we have just heard from the right hon. Gentleman had nothing whatsoever to do with the motion under discussion? He did not mention the NHS risk register once, except to say that it was a “secondary issue”. To all the rest of us here, it is “the” issue under discussion. Was not the right hon. Gentleman’s speech simply a whitewash of his own time as Secretary of State for Health?