NHS Success Regime

Part of House of Commons Commission – in the House of Commons at 10:32 am on 4 June 2015.

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Photo of Ben Gummer Ben Gummer The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health 10:32, 4 June 2015

It gives me particular pleasure to respond to my right hon. and learned Friend. He was an exceptional Secretary of State for Health because he understood the centrality of local decisions by patients and their doctors and commissioners. I confirm that we will continue to allow local commissioners to make the decisions, rather than try to wrest power back from them to Whitehall, which is precisely what the shadow Secretary of State did when he was Secretary of State.