§ Mr. Simon Hughes (Southwark and Bermondsey)I have been asked by my Liberal Democrat colleagues in north Devon to present a petition of nearly 6,000 people which was collected more widely in Devon in opposition to the current proposal for the local health service to opt out as a self-governing NHS trust. I do this in the place of my colleague who is our health spokesman. I present the petition in that capacity and I hope that it will be taken fully into account when the deliberations take place in the office of the Secretary of State for Health in the next few days.
§ To lie upon the Table.