§ Dr. Cunningham (Copeland)On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. During Prime Minister's Questions today my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett) put to the Prime Minister a question concerning the appalling tragedy that had befallen Carley Reavill. May we have it on the record that the Prime Minister seems to have been misadvised about this tragic case? Dr. Alison Shurtz has confirmed that Carley was diagnosed as having meningitis shortly after arrival at Queen Elizabeth II hospital, and she would have been transferred to another hospital if an intensive paediatric care bed had been available. Dr. Duncan Matthews, of the Great Ormond Street hospital, has said that critically ill children are being denied intensive care treatment because there is not any money to make beds available. It was the shortage of beds, caused by the shortage of funding in the national health service, that led to this appalling tragedy.
§ Mr. Geoffrey Dickens (Littleborough and Saddleworth)Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker.
§ Mr. SpeakerThis is not a point of order for me. It seems to be a continuation of Question Time.
§ Mr. DickensI promise—
§ Mr. SpeakerTry to make it a point of order for me.
§ Mr. DickensDo you. Mr. Speaker, think that it would be helpful to you and to the House to know where that information came from so that a judgment might be made?
§ Mr. SpeakerI do not think that it would be helpful to me. This is not a point of order for me.