I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way. He wants to talk about minimum safety levels. The reality is this: after 12 years of a Tory Government, minimum safety no longer exists in our NHS. A paramedic contacted me directly at the weekend to say that he had begun his shift at 7 am expecting to sign off later that evening, and spent the entirety of that shift sitting outside Hull Royal Infirmary because there was no bed available for his patient, whose life he had saved. There is not any safety in the NHS as a result of the Tory Government. The Secretary of State needs to acknowledge that before we move on to discuss anything else.
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Karl Turner
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 16 January 2023.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill.
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