Here's an intervention from Owen Smith (MP for Pontypridd, Labour) from a Commons debate on the future of England's NHS:
Given the Secretary of State’s manifest interest in Wales, I invite him to come to Wales to meet some Welsh patients with me to find out at first hand which party they trust to safeguard the heritage of the NHS—Labour or the Tories. I suspect that the answer would be revealing for him. How much Welsh taxpayers’ money has been wasted on this needless reorganisation of the NHS?
Why is this little scrote even present during this debate, let alone asking questions; and why on earth will he get a vote on any legislation relating to the reorganisation of the Health Service in England?
This was Andrew Lansley's response:
The hon. Gentleman must know that the money available to the NHS in Wales is available to the NHS in Wales, and that it is separate from England. The Labour Welsh Assembly Government have made their own decisions about the priority that they attach to the national health service in Wales, and the result is, as the King’s Fund says, that they plan to reduce its budget by 8.3% in real terms. We are going to increase the NHS budget in real terms. The result can be seen in waiting times, which we were talking about. In England, the proportion of patients admitted to hospital who are seen within 18 weeks, according to the latest data, is 89.6%. He might like to reflect on the fact that the figure for Wales is 64.5%.
It seems like a reasonable response, until you understand that Andrew Lansley often talks and sends out press releases that give the impression that he is speaking about the NHS across the UK (see here& here), when in fact his remit is for England only. So perhaps Lansley is fully deserving of idiotic and pointless intrusions into English domestic matters from MPs who are democratically unaccountable to the people of England. Actually, given that Lansley doesn't support an English parliament, there's no perhaps about it, he deserves to have his reforms shat upon by MPs elected outside England.