Will the hon. Lady give way?

Will the hon. Lady give way?

Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?

Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?

Cheekiness accepted. The hon. Gentleman is quite right that the £600 million extra is for both children and adult social care, whereas adult social care alone is expected to have a £2.4 billion hit, so does he agree that if the NHS, however well funded, cannot move its patients into...

Cheekiness accepted. The hon. Gentleman is quite right that the £600 million extra is for both children and adult social care, whereas adult social care alone is expected to have a £2.4 billion hit, so does he agree that if the NHS, however well funded, cannot move its patients into...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Will the hon. Lady give way?

Will the hon. Lady give way?

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Does my hon. Friend agree that no one would think less of the Government if they listened to these arguments, heard the message and changed? For instance, there is the message about social care being hit by £2.5 billion of extra costs. The £600 million that has been given to...

Does my hon. Friend agree that no one would think less of the Government if they listened to these arguments, heard the message and changed? For instance, there is the message about social care being hit by £2.5 billion of extra costs. The £600 million that has been given to...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the absence on the Government Front Bench of anyone with any experience of running a business, when businesses create the wealth that pays for public services, may explain why the Budget is so financially illiterate?

Does my hon. Friend agree that the absence on the Government Front Bench of anyone with any experience of running a business, when businesses create the wealth that pays for public services, may explain why the Budget is so financially illiterate?

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

My constituency is in a rural area outside of Hull, and it is rural areas that are particularly concerned about the proposals. They suffered when the Government tinkered with dentistry and my constituency has seen a major loss of dentistry services. The idea that the Secretary of State and the...

My constituency is in a rural area outside of Hull, and it is rural areas that are particularly concerned about the proposals. They suffered when the Government tinkered with dentistry and my constituency has seen a major loss of dentistry services. The idea that the Secretary of State and the...

Where is he?

Where is he?

I know that the right hon. Gentleman shares my concern about provision in rural areas. There is, as my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton) observed, a fear about the imposition of polyclinics. The policy will go down particularly ill in rural areas where minor injuries units...

I know that the right hon. Gentleman shares my concern about provision in rural areas. There is, as my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton) observed, a fear about the imposition of polyclinics. The policy will go down particularly ill in rural areas where minor injuries units...

I apologise for my late return to the debate. I wonder whether my hon. Friend agrees that we may end up with another situation that often arises under this Government. Government Members are fighting against their own tax rates, and Government Members who have voted to close post offices are...

I apologise for my late return to the debate. I wonder whether my hon. Friend agrees that we may end up with another situation that often arises under this Government. Government Members are fighting against their own tax rates, and Government Members who have voted to close post offices are...