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Health Inequalities

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Mr. Turner) on securing this important debate. I do not intend to broaden my response to include health inequalities in general; we will have plenty of opportunities to debate those and the Health Committee’s report in the House on future occasions. With regards to the remarks of the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mike Penning), an hour or so ago a statement was made in the main Chamber during which the Conservative claim that what happened at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust was the result of targets was comprehensively demolished—thank you very much—so I shall not respond to that either. Again, there will be plenty more opportunities to do so.