Ann Keen breaks her long silence in the House of Commons
Now that she has been appointed a Parliamentary Under Secretary at the Department of Health, Ann Keen MP has been obliged to end her long silence in the House of Commons. She spoke twice in Westminster Hall yesterday according to www.theyworkforyou.com:Spoken by Ann Keen : 2 Westminster Hall debates ===============================================Dental Services (Sutton and Merton) (3 Jul 2007) http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2007-07-03a.230.1&s=speaker%3A10330#g233.0Ann Keen: "I congratulate the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake) on securing this debate on dental services, and I thank him for his kind and supportive comments at the beginning of his speech. I also congratulate him on the imaginative use of his website, the pictures with his local dentist, and his survey of his constituents. It is certainly the way forward to consult all..."Dental Services (Sutton and Merton) (3 Jul 2007)http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2007-07-03a.230.1&s=speaker%3A10330#g236.1Ann Keen: "My experience is that when a contract is working well in the NHS, and when we are building on a good relationship with PCTs and dental services, it is obviously wrong to go back on it. We should build on the success of NHS dentistry and PCT involvement. The system of the 1990s and before did not work but, since 2006, the new contract has led to proven improvements in oral health and in NHS..."Comment: I think that some of her constituents who have problems finding an NHS dentist may have a few words to say to Mrs Keen if they ever get a chance to meet her !In view of the fact that the Hounslow PCT is over £20 million in debt and has been under-funded by the Government in recent years, some of her constituents may want to ask Mrs Keen what is she going to do about solving the NHS problems in her own constituency.
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