Topical Questions

Part of Health and Social Care – in the House of Commons at on 15 October 2024.

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Photo of Victoria Atkins Victoria Atkins Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

After 14 years of opposition—two and a half of which the Secretary of State spent on the Front Bench and travelling around the world, funded by other Governments, to look at their healthcare systems—and more than 100 days in government, the right hon. Gentleman does not even know the start date of his own flagship policy. He is no Action Man; he is Anchorman.

Let us deal with Labour’s cruel decision to slash winter fuel payments, which will add pressure not only to patients, but to the NHS. The NHS’s deputy chief operating officer—