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General Practice (Northamptonshire)

This is the 10th debate on local issues that I have managed to secure, with the permission of Mr. Speaker, in the past two years, and this is the most inappropriate party political response that I have had from any Minister. This Chamber should be a genuine forum for Back-Bench Members to raise genuine constituency cases. I was not making any political points whatever. Will the Minister confirm that NHS spending in Northamptonshire is based on registered patients at GP practices, and not on the population? On extra opening times for GP surgeries, I was simply quoting to the Minister his Department's survey data, which show that 85 per cent. of patients in Northamptonshire are satisfied with the current opening hours of GP surgeries.