The Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell MP is elected as the Health Select Committee Chair
On 10 June the Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell MP was elected as the Health Select Committee Chair.
He made the following statement in response to his appointment:
‘I am delighted and honoured to have been elected by my colleagues to serve as Chair of the Health Select Committee. The Select Committee has a vital role in scrutinising the performance of the Government and reporting on it to the House and the public. We all know that government spending is going to be more constrained in the years ahead; I believe this makes it doubly important that the Select Committee is able to produce authoritative reports which analyse the impact of government decisions on the patients and staff of the NHS. I also believe that the Select Committee can play an important role in building cross party support for long term developments in health policy. While there will always be political controversy about individual decisions, I believe the Select Committee can play a key role in building on the broad consensus about objectives which exists within and beyond the House of Commons. At the heart of the debate about the future of public services is the familiar, but increasingly challenging, requirement to reconcile public aspirations with available resources. There is no bigger issue facing our society.’
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