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Mon 12th Jul 2010
NHS White Paper
Commons Chamber

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Monday 12th July 2010

(13 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Lansley Portrait Mr Lansley
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No. That is completely wrong on all counts.

Julian Lewis Portrait Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East) (Con)
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I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his firm grasp of the subject and on taking an axe to the forest of bureaucracy. As he proposes to phase out the strategic health authorities, may I nominate the South Central strategic health authority—he knows what is coming—because that would ensure that it was no longer able to waste hundreds of thousands of pounds of our money on fighting a hopeless legal case to impose fluoridation on a population, three quarters of whom have indicated that they do not want it?

Lord Lansley Portrait Mr Lansley
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Yes, I am indeed aware of precisely what my hon. Friend says and will certainly take it into account.

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