HC Deb 23 January 2002 vol 378 cc953-4W
Ms Drown

To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to SIs No 3740 and 3742, if it is Government policy to provide for(a) the automatic removal of a general practitioner from a health authority's list after a sentence of imprisonment of more than six months and (b) the absence of any opportunity for the doctor to make a case against removal; and whether it is It is for local statutory bodies, Wandsworth in this instance, to determine the services they provide in the light of their knowledge of local needs and priorities.