Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 19 October 2005, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Beamish. The answering member was Liam Byrne.

Private Sector (NHS)

Westminster hall adjournment debate on the NHS and the private sector.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 437 c270-94WH
Session: 2005-06
Department: Department of Health
Chamber / Committee: Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions: Kelvin Hopkins | 437 c281-2WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I thank my hon. Friend for her very helpful intervention. My local primary care trust ...; Tony Lloyd | 437 c283-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend the Minister is delighted today to be surrounded by his hon. Friends. ...; Richard Taylor | 437 c282-3WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones) on his forensic exposure of so muc...; Lynda Waltho | 437 c284-5WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones) on securing this debate, and I...; Helen Jones | 437 c281WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the problems of dealing with staff will become more acute with the se...; Kelvin Hopkins | 437 c280-1WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to contribute to the debate, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North D...; Paul Truswell | 437 c279-80WH (Link to this contribution) I am a charitable individual, and I understand my hon. Friend's interpretation, but I did start by s...; Lord Beamish | 437 c270WH (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with that. If the private sector is to complement the health service, it should com...; Lord Beamish | 437 c270WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to have secured this debate. The use of the private sector in the health service is a t...; David Leslie Taylor | 437 c270WH (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend add a fourth criterion to the three that he has given, and with which I do not ...; Lord Beamish | 437 c271-2WH (Link to this contribution) I shall be referring to that later. It is important that local people have a say in the way in which...; Paul Farrelly | 437 c270-1WH (Link to this contribution) I do not want to make the list of criteria endless, but does my hon. Friend agree that there should ...; Lord Beamish | 437 c272-5WH (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree. It is an area that I shall explore later. Trying to pin down exactly what the cost...; Helen Jones | 437 c272WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the situation is even worse? Many of the independent treatment centre...; Evan Harris | 437 c278WH (Link to this contribution) I endorse everything that the hon. Gentleman said, and through him ask why it is felt that the propo...; Tony Baldry | 437 c276-8WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones) has done the House a service in obtaining this debate. ...; Lord Beamish | 437 c278WH (Link to this contribution) Not always.; Tony Baldry | 437 c278WH (Link to this contribution) My colleague makes a perfectly sensible point. There is a legion of policy questions that need to be...; Paul Truswell | 437 c278-9WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones) on securing this importa...; Tony Baldry | 437 c278WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says, sotto voce, not always. If the Minister is not prepared to meet us as Oxfor...; Jon Trickett | 437 c279WH (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend, I am a West Yorkshire MP. Have health service officials told him, as they have ...; Jon Trickett | 437 c285WH (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to my hon. Friend, but would she agree that the private sector should not b...; Paul Farrelly | 437 c294WH (Link to this contribution) I wanted to ask about the imposition of commissioning on PCTs. Newcastle-under-Lyme PCT employs scor...; Liam Byrne | 437 c294WH (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has said in the past couple of days, there are two as...; Helen Jones | 437 c292WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?; Liam Byrne | 437 c292-4WH (Link to this contribution) I have so many points to cover that I will not give way. At the heart of the debate and the points...; John Baron | 437 c292WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?; Liam Byrne | 437 c292WH (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. NHS staff must never and will never by this Minister be labelled a producer intere...; John Baron | 437 c288-9WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones) on securing this important debate....; Lynda Waltho | 437 c285WH (Link to this contribution) It should not be at the expense of the national health service, and I am sorry if I gave that impres...; John Baron | 437 c290-1WH (Link to this contribution) I shall make some progress because I want to ensure that I give the Minister plenty of time. If ther...; Kelvin Hopkins | 437 c289WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?; Robert Flello | 437 c285-6WH (Link to this contribution) The hospice movement might be a private sector provider, but would my hon. Friend agree that we shou...; Liam Byrne | 437 c291-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to discuss these matters this afternoon. Of the 10 minutes that I ...; Steve Webb | 437 c286-8WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, begin by congratulating the hon. Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones) on a superbly begun deb...; Lynda Waltho | 437 c286WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I agree with my hon. Friend, and I know that Treetops does as good a job in his constitu...
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