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Amendment (a) in lieu agreed to.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Order. I ask hon. Members to leave quickly and quietly, so that business can proceed—[Interruption.] Order. Will hon. Members please conduct their conversations outside the Chamber if they are not staying for the debate?
PETITIONS
Barnhaven Care Home
11.10 pm
Angela Browning (Tiverton and Honiton) (Con): This is the second petition in a month that I have presented to the House on the closure of a Devon county council residential home for the elderly.
To the honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled,
The Humble Petition of Robin Barwell and staff, residents, carers and supports of Barnhaven Residential Care Home, Bampton, Devon,
Wherefore your Petitioners pray that your Honourable House will note that there is strong local support for both keeping Barnhaven open as a care home and expanding the services it could provide to support older people in the community, and urge the Government, in the light of the recent White Paper "Our health, our care, our say", to help our group of committed volunteers to put the aims of the White Paper into action in Bampton.
Southend Cancer Centre
11.12 pm
Bob Spink (Castle Point) (Con): South Essex MPs join together tonight to show how important it is to defend our cancer centre at Southend hospital. I pay tribute to those excellent people who signed our petitions—they are stars who care about their community—and to the local press for getting behind the "hands off our cancer centre" campaign in the very best traditions of local journalism.
We pay tribute to all who work in the Southend Hospital Cancer Centre, believe it does wonderful and very caring work and achieves excellent outcomes. We wish to see this valuable facility retained locally to serve local people and believe that removing it will not provide cost savings or a better service for local people or
- better outcomes. We note the efforts of the local press and local MPs in successfully fighting for the centre some years ago and welcome the new efforts of the local press and MPs in working together to retain the centre now.
The Petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons call upon the Government to accept the views of local people and retain the cancer centre at Southend hospital and to give it full support in the future.
11.14 pm
James Duddridge (Rochford and Southend, East) (Con): With parliamentary colleagues, I present this petition, which includes more than 2,500 signatures from my constituency, on the evening of the end of the consultation to merge the South Essex cancer network, to which the petitioners are vehemently opposed.
We pay tribute to all who work in the Southend Hospital Cancer Centre, believe it does wonderful and very caring work and achieves excellent outcomes. We wish to see this valuable facility retained locally to serve local people and believe that removing it will not provide cost savings or a better service for local people or better outcomes. We note the efforts of the local press and local MPs in successfully fighting for the centre some years ago and welcome the new efforts of the local press and MPs in working together to retain the centre now.
The Petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons call upon the Government to accept the views of local people and retain the cancer centre at Southend hospital and to give it full support in the future.
11.15 pm
Mr. David Amess (Southend, West) (Con): I have the honour to present a petition that has been signed by a great many of my constituents who regard Southend hospital cancer centre as a centre of excellence and who will resist any efforts to change the present arrangements for treating patients who suffer from cancer.
We pay tribute to all who work in the Southend Hospital Cancer Centre, believe it does wonderful and very caring work and achieves excellent outcomes. We wish to see this valuable facility retained locally to serve local people and believe that removing it will not provide cost savings or a better service for local people or better outcomes. We note the efforts of the local press and local MPs in successfully fighting for the centre some years ago and welcome the new efforts of the local press and MPs in working together to retain the centre now.
The Petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons call upon the Government to accept the views of local people and retain the cancer centre at Southend hospital and to give it full support in the future.
Green Belt
Bob Spink (Castle Point) (Con): I rise to defend the green belt and the quality of life of my constituents. We are under increasing threat from land grabbers who want to take the green heart of our community and develop—
Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Alan Haselhurst): Order. I let it go the first time, but the hon. Gentleman must not make a speech. He must stick to the terms of the petition.
Bob Spink: Thank you for your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker.
The Petition of people living in and around Thundersley, Castle Point declares that we the residents of Thundersley and surrounding areas are concerned about the loss of green belt land to development, particularly in the area of Burches Road, and we believe Castle Point is already overdeveloped for the infrastructure that exists.
The Petitioners therefore call on the House of Commons to urge the Government to impress upon Castle Point Borough Council to reject any development in this area, as requested by the Member of Parliament. And the Petitioners remain, etc.
Bus Services
Bob Spink (Castle Point) (Con): I presented a petition in similar terms in defence of the No. 12 bus service from Tarpots to Benfleet. This is a brand new petition from a different group of people.
Declares that the Petitioners wish to formally object to the removal by First Essex Buses Limited of the No. 12 bus service from Tarpots in Benfleet to Pitsea because there is no alternative service and the removal will cause great inconvenience and hardship to those residents who rely solely on public transport, and that this loss is unacceptable and particularly hurts vulnerable and elderly people in our community.
The Petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons call upon the Government to urge the Bus Company to maintain the No. 12 service and to take such action as is necessary to enable First Essex Buses to maintain such an important yet marginal bus services.
To lie upon the Table.
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Pensioner Travel (Tyne and Wear)
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Alan Campbell]
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