Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 18 March 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Neil Turner. The answering member was Ben Bradshaw.

Health Inequalities

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on health inequalities and primary care trust funding.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 489 c265-87WH
Session: 2008-09
Department: Department of Health
Chamber / Committee: Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions: Speaker | 489 c287WH (Link to this contribution) Order. We must move on to the next debate.; Mike Penning | 489 c282-3WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has raised an important point. My constituency gets disproportionately low funding com...; Mike Penning | 489 c283WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman bear with me, because I am short of time and it is not be possible for me to...; Mike Penning | 489 c283WH (Link to this contribution) I have only four minutes, and I want to leave 10 minutes for the Minister to respond to the debate. ...; Mike Hall | 489 c283WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?; Mike Penning | 489 c283-4WH (Link to this contribution) No. At the end of the month, the commission will be abolished, and the parliamentary health ombudsma...; Ben Bradshaw | 489 c284WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Mr. Turner) on securing this important debate. I...; Mike Hall | 489 c284WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?; Ben Bradshaw | 489 c284-7WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend mind if I do not? So many Members have made so many points about allocations, an...; John Pugh | 489 c279-80WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Wigan (Mr. Turner) on having started this very important debate. ...; Dari Taylor | 489 c277-9WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Mr. Turner) on securing the debate. I am most gr...; Christopher Fraser | 489 c276-7WH (Link to this contribution) I want to make a very quick contribution to the debate. [Interruption.] Before the hon. Member for S...; Mike Hall | 489 c274-6WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Mr. Turner) on securing this important debate ab...; Mike Penning | 489 c281-2WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Southport (Dr. Pugh) for cutting his comments short, but we want to hear...; Dari Taylor | 489 c282WH (Link to this contribution) I hope that hon. Gentleman will put into that into context. We were a long way behind in 1997, and w...; Dari Taylor | 489 c280-1WH (Link to this contribution) Was the hon. Gentleman as shocked as I was when reading something in the ACRA briefing? It stated th...; John Pugh | 489 c281WH (Link to this contribution) It is a bizarre statement, because the cost of not reducing health inequalities is allowing health i...; Neil Turner | 489 c280WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman not recognise that although old people become ill and need care more, in are...; John Pugh | 489 c280WH (Link to this contribution) I absolutely recognise that. The hon. Gentleman has made an entirely valid point. I was making the p...; Neil Turner | 489 c267WH (Link to this contribution) It is probably true that the Secretary of State inherited the decision. Nevertheless, what I was abo...; Neil Turner | 489 c267WH (Link to this contribution) I accept that. My hon. Friend makes an important point, and I could say the same about my constituen...; Karen Buck | 489 c267WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on the quality of his speech. Does he recognise that inequality in hea...; Andrew George | 489 c270WH (Link to this contribution) Is not the situation in many parts of the country even worse than the hon. Gentleman describes? As I...; Neil Turner | 489 c270-2WH (Link to this contribution) Again, the hon. Gentleman is pinching my lines. His point is valid and important. The problem with u...; Andrew Smith | 489 c272-4WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my good friend, the hon. Member for Wigan (Mr. Turner), on his excellent, well-inform...; Andrew George | 489 c267-8WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a strong case and I, too, welcome the extra funding in the NHS over the yea...; Neil Turner | 489 c268WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman pinches a later part of my speech, and although I appreciate that he cannot stay ...; Karen Buck | 489 c268WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend also recognise that those of us, myself included, who have a primary care trust ...; Neil Turner | 489 c269-70WH (Link to this contribution) I accept that inner cities, particularly London and many of our other major cities, have major probl...; Mike Penning | 489 c266-7WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an excellent and passionate speech in defence of his Government. On the...; Neil Turner | 489 c265-6WH (Link to this contribution) I think that this is the first time that I have had the pleasure and honour of serving under your ch...
Subjects: Disadvantaged Health services Finance NHS Public expenditure Primary care trusts
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