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Part of Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 4:15 pm on 15 October 2014.

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Photo of Andy Burnham Andy Burnham Shadow Secretary of State for Health 4:15, 15 October 2014

I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is wrong, because I mentioned the cuts to mental health services earlier in answer to my hon. Friend Helen Jones. The talking therapies he mentioned were introduced by the previous Government —indeed by me—and in some places they are not being cut, which I am pleased about, but in others they are. The letter I referred to from the royal colleges and other organisations talked about a crisis in mental health. They say that people are being ferried hundreds of miles to find emergency beds. That is the reality on this Government’s watch. I think that a little less complacency and a little more focus on these problems would not go amiss.