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Primary Care Trusts and Ambulance Trusts

I thank my hon. Friend for his statement. I join the growing number of hon. Members in all parts of the House thanking him for its content in relation to the reconfiguration of primary care trusts. I specifically thank him for rejecting the proposal from the Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire strategic health authority to remove existing coterminosity and create even less, and for listening to the opinion of every local council, every local trust, their staff, Members of Parliament, voluntary community organisations, GPs and just about everybody who thought that that proposal was unwise. I thank the Government for making a sound decision.