The Minister is being generous with his time. Let us get the history right. The reason why the Labour Government increased the involvement of private sector bidders was simply to be able to increase capacity quickly—to get the waiting list and waiting time backlogs down, which they had inherited from the previous Conservative Government and that were massive. In terms of the 2009 Bill, I seem to remember that there was a provision in there that gave preference to NHS bidders.
Future of the NHS
Proceeding contribution from
Christian Matheson
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 31 January 2022.
It occurred during Backbench debate
and
e-petition debate on Future of the NHS.
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