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Private Sector (NHS)

My colleague makes a perfectly sensible point. There is a legion of policy questions that need to be considered and properly answered. The idea that the strategic health authority will make a "rapid appointment" of a team to run the PCT in the way proposed is appalling. It is an appalling use of the machinery and the process of Government when the Oxfordshire health economy is already in freefall and when substantial cuts will almost certainly have to be made. I ask the Minister to ensure that his private office digs out all the papers on the issue and puts them in his Box. I hope then that his diary secretary will get in touch with us and arrange a time when the Minister can talk to us, as perfectly intelligent Members of Parliament, about the policy implications. The hon. Member for North Durham has the opportunity of being in the same Division Lobby as the Minister and still has to table questions.