§ Mr. Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull, Central)With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I beg to present a petition on behalf of my colleagues and myself and 25,000 of our constituents in Hull and its surroundings.
When this petition was first being proposed, there was a threatened closure of two women's hospitals in my constituency. Yesterday, regrettably, the area health authority confirmed the decision to close. Therefore, this is one of our last opportunities to appeal to the House to have that decision set aside.
The petition reads as follows:
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament Assembled.The Humble Petition of the undersigned people of Kingston upon Hull and adjoining districts sheweth that there is great concern at any proposals to close the Hull Hospital for Women and the Townend Maternity Home.Wherefore your petitioners pray, in order that the Hull Hospital for Women and the Townend Maternity Home may continue to provide their unique and excellent services to the women of Hull and adjoining districts that the proposals to close or alter the use thereof do not meet with your favour.And your Petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray etc.1920 The first name on the list of petitioners is that of Mr. Goforth, the lord mayor of the city of Kingston upon Hull.
§ To lie upon the Table.