3. Mr. John M. TaylorIf he will pay an official visit to Solihull hospital to discuss local health provision. [13810]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Paul Boateng)I have no plans to visit Solihull hospital, but I will conduct an official visit to Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust in the near future. I am looking forward to it enormously.
Mr. TaylorThe Minister will be welcome when he comes to Solihull. Contrary to what the Secretary of State had to say, the previous Government gave my constituency a magnificent new state-of-the-art hospital. The Minister of State has recently vouchsafed to me in a written answer the range of services provided by that hospital. I hope that, when the Minister visits Solihull, he will be able to say that that range of services will be sustained for the benefit of my constituents and, perhaps, that other services will be added.
§ Mr. BoatengThe NHS in Solihull is certainly safe in our hands: I am not so sure that it was safe in the hands of the previous Government.