Health and Social Care (Re-committed) Bill

Debate between Mark Simmonds and Barbara Keeley

Tuesday 6th September 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mark Simmonds]

I give way first to the hon. Member for Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley).

[Barbara Keeley]

The speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Frank Dobson) is one of the best I have heard in the Chamber, as I think Opposition Members would agree. People outside the Chamber are saying that too.

On repetitiveness in the points that are being made, Report stage allows Members who did not serve on the Committee to say the things that they want to say. It is our chance right across the House to comment on the Bill, so that is not a valid criticism of what is going on in the debate.

[Mark Simmonds]

I hope the hon. Member for Easington has a better intervention to make.