Sue Doughty, Parliamentary Spokesperson for Guildford and Professor Steve Webb MP, the Liberal Democrat front bench spokesman on health visited the Royal Surrey County Hospital yesterday and then addressed a packed hall of local people.
"After this week, the Conservatives are no closer to putting forward a serious policy agenda to the people of Britain. On the NHS, we need to remember that health spending actually fell in the last year the Tories were in power and that at the general election, David Cameron supported the introduction of a 'patient passport' to encourage people to opt out of the NHS. What this week has shown is that the Conservatives remain vacuous, about spin rather than substance, and are becoming more divided and confused by the day." Norman Lamb MP, Lib Dem Shadow Health Minister
The government has been criticised for receiving £268,000 from telephone benefit hotlines with the prefix 0845.
Commenting on today's Institute for Fiscal Studies report, which concludes that Labour's reforms of the benefit system have weakened average work incentives, Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, David Laws MP said:
Commenting on I CAN's report today showing half of children are unable to speak properly when they start school, Liberal Democrat Shadow Education Secretary, Sarah Teather MP said:
Half of children are unable to speak properly when they start school, a children's communications charity says.
