Harriet Harman: How does the Secretary of State answer patients' justifiable fears that when general practitioners are kept to fixed budgets they will limit patient care so as to keep within the budget? Will not doctors give treatment to suit the budget rather than treatment that suits the patient, and what happens if the money runs out?
Harriet Harman: Is it not reprehensible that the process of opting out should be done in secrecy and by stealth?
Harriet Harman: Is it not the case that a patient receives better care if a GP has more time to spend with each patient? Is it not going in completely the wrong direction to give financial incentives to doctors to have as many patients as possible on their lists?
Harriet Harman: Two fifths.
Harriet Harman: What are we here for?
Harriet Harman: rose—
Harriet Harman: Not enough is done.
Harriet Harman: No, to look at it.
Harriet Harman: rose—
Harriet Harman: Will the hon. Gentleman support people in Yorkshire who want a say before any of their hospitals become self-governing NHS hospital trusts and opt out of the district health authority?
Harriet Harman: rose——
Harriet Harman: That is absolutely true.
Harriet Harman: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Harriet Harman: —Ministers never talk about these cases. [Interruption.] Perhaps they do not even read the reports of such tribunals. Conservative Members do not care, because these homes are private. [Interruption.] The Government's commitment to the market takes priority over their commitment to the vulnerable and the dependent.
Harriet Harman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of business investment was represented by manufacturing investment in (a) 1978 and (b) 1988.
Harriet Harman: Does the Minister not realise that, because of cash limits, one quarter of all health authorities are cutting their family planning services and that some, such as Chichester, Cambridge and Trafford, are closing all their family planning clinics? Will she promise to carry out a review because otherwise there will be an increase in unplanned pregnancies?
Harriet Harman: Even for individual employees?
Harriet Harman: Why, then, does the hon. Gentleman intend to vote for the guillotine?
Harriet Harman: I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Harriet Harman: Now answer my question.