My hon. Friend makes an important point. Far from driving the health service towards a coherent vision of the future, the Bill promises frenetic gridlock as professionals try to make the best of the bad job they have been left by the Health Secretary. The second example is promoting efficiency....

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Far from driving the health service towards a coherent vision of the future, the Bill promises frenetic gridlock as professionals try to make the best of the bad job they have been left by the Health Secretary. The second example is promoting efficiency....

I rise today to make a simple point to Ministers and their supporters: however acute the embarrassment of giving up on the Health and Social Care Bill at this stage, it will pale into insignificance compared with the embarrassment, never mind the trauma and cost, of ploughing ahead with this...

I rise today to make a simple point to Ministers and their supporters: however acute the embarrassment of giving up on the Health and Social Care Bill at this stage, it will pale into insignificance compared with the embarrassment, never mind the trauma and cost, of ploughing ahead with this...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (Dr Poulter). I congratulate him on his important and interesting speech, and I wish to pick up his challenge. The choice is not between no reform and reform; it is between good reform and bad...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (Dr Poulter). I congratulate him on his important and interesting speech, and I wish to pick up his challenge. The choice is not between no reform and reform; it is between good reform and bad...

I am happy to wager the hon. Gentleman that the costs will turn out to be more like double those estimated and the savings more like half. The Bill is myopic, or ““deluded””, to use the word of the British Medical Journal, in three key areas, which I wish to...

I am happy to wager the hon. Gentleman that the costs will turn out to be more like double those estimated and the savings more like half. The Bill is myopic, or ““deluded””, to use the word of the British Medical Journal, in three key areas, which I wish to...

No, I have given way once and I want to make some progress. If I have time, I will come back to the hon. Gentleman. All the matters that I have mentioned are to service a vision of health care as a regulated industry. The Secretary of State has engaged...

No, I have given way once and I want to make some progress. If I have time, I will come back to the hon. Gentleman. All the matters that I have mentioned are to service a vision of health care as a regulated industry. The Secretary of State has engaged...

The benefits of memory are useful in politics, and perhaps my right hon. Friend's intervention will help the hon. Member for St Ives to decide how to vote in the Lobby tonight. Many people have asked why the Government are making these proposals at such breakneck speed. Surely it is...

The benefits of memory are useful in politics, and perhaps my right hon. Friend's intervention will help the hon. Member for St Ives to decide how to vote in the Lobby tonight. Many people have asked why the Government are making these proposals at such breakneck speed. Surely it is...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the most significant change in the Bill was not mentioned by the Secretary of State? It is that the Bill introduces price competition into a market that, up to now, has allowed competition only on quality. The London School of Economics, citing academic...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the most significant change in the Bill was not mentioned by the Secretary of State? It is that the Bill introduces price competition into a market that, up to now, has allowed competition only on quality. The London School of Economics, citing academic...