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Business of the House

May I back the calls for a debate on the future of the health service and, in particular, the cuts that will be made? My constituents face a £30 million cut in health care, leading to the closure of all the acute facilities at our hospital, including a brand spanking new stroke unit. My constituents want nothing more than a level playing field, so perhaps the debate could be used to explain why the Prime Minister’s constituency, Sedgefield, gets £1,210 per head for health care, but my constituents get £960. That is a shortfall of £250 per head and could have kept some of those departments open. We want a level playing field, not rhetoric from the Leader of the House.