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Mr Cecil Franks is a former MP for Barrow and Furness.

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Former MP for Barrow and Furness

Entered the House of Commons on 9 June 1983 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 16 March 1992 — General election

Future MPs in this constituency

• John Hutton
• John Woodcock
• Simon Fell
• Michelle Scrogham

Recent appearances

• Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Waiting Lists 18 Feb 1992

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many in-patients are waiting for longer than a year for treatment; and what was the corresponding figure for 1979.

• Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Waiting Lists 18 Feb 1992

  Those figures are welcome, as is the 60 per cent. reduction in the northern region of those having to wait more than two years. Is not the essential difference between Government policies and those of the Opposition that the Government's prime concern lies with patients' interests, while Opposition Members' prime concern is to keep happy the unions that pay and sponsor them?

• Amphibious Forces 13 Feb 1992

  Together with many other hon. Members, I warmly welcome what the Minister has said this afternoon—not least that Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. will be among those invited to tender for the aircraft support ship. I wonder if I could possibly assist the Minister in response to the question put to him by my hon. Friend the Member for East Hampshire (Mr. Mates). I noted that the...

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