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Business of the House

Will my right hon. Friend allow a debate on the front-page story of today’s Wimbledon Post on mis-spending by unelected bureaucrats in the NHS? My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has been called in to decide on the site of a new general hospital in my area. Sutton’s MPs and I want it to stay at my existing local hospital, St. Helier. However, the officials are determined to move it to a wealthy suburb, where it would be inaccessible to my constituents. Even though no decision has yet been made, they are spending huge amounts of taxpayers’ money on the site—including £60,000 that they have paid, to help them to promote the site, to an organisation run by someone who, for constitutional reasons, should not be involved in political decisions such as these: the Prince of Wales. The House needs to debate whether the Prince should be backing health cuts for my poorest constituents—