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Primary Care Trusts and Ambulance Trusts

I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments. He has done more than anybody in the House to bring about the improving NHS that we have. The PCT structure on the ground is largely due to the changes that he made as Secretary of State for Health. I am grateful for his comments about listening. We have indeed listened. I know that strong representations were made by him and others in the north-east region. As I said to the hon. Member for Eddisbury a moment ago, it was right that we listened to those representations because we want the organisations to command solid local support. I am pleased that we have achieved some success in my right hon. Friend’s area. My right hon. Friend made a point about housing. When we consider coterminosity, we all think about social services, but he is absolutely right to say that we can think more widely about links with councils and consider the provision of adequate housing and leisure and cultural services to local populations so that we can really begin to understand how to make people more active. All those possibilities are opened up by greater coterminosity and I am grateful for the welcome given by my right hon. Friend.