Health Infrastructure Plan

John Bercow Excerpts
Monday 30th September 2019

(4 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stephen Pound Portrait Stephen Pound
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I asked first.

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. The words “cheeky chappy” could have been invented to describe the hon. Gentleman, and I am sure that that is something in which he takes great pride, among many other things.

Mike Kane Portrait Mike Kane (Wythenshawe and Sale East) (Lab)
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As a Mancunian MP, I am absolutely sickened to see Members on the Government Benches today. If you will forgive the personal pronoun, you should be in Manchester spending your hard-earned wages on our economy. [Interruption.] I was just trying to take the toxicity out of the place.

The NHS is a devolved matter in Greater Manchester, but NHS financial technicalities are holding back the redevelopment of the wonderful Wythenshawe Hospital in my constituency. Will the Minister meet me to discuss those technicalities?