Anne Main questions the Shadow Health Secretary about the financial strain put on health care authorities by the previous Government's policy of doubling the remuneration of GPs.

Mrs Anne Main (St Albans) (Con): Given that the biggest strain on most health authorities is staff pay, does the right hon. Gentleman regret the fact that Labour doubled the remuneration of GPs, allowing them to opt out and thus putting huge stresses on many health care authorities, which then had to buy in additional services? Does Labour not regret allowing doctors to be paid more for doing less?

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