Richard Varden
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first heard Jan 2015
last heard Jan 2015
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Now that's simpler, of course, but unfortunately it's wrong.
Parliamentarians is a broader category.
It includes members of the House of Lords.
But even if you include Lords, that's an awful lot of financial connections to private health care, which could be worrying if it's true.
Which lets us take a look at all the details.
So here's an example.
Baroness Virginia Bottomley is a director of Bupa, the private healthcare provider.
She voted for the bill.
It's a clear connection.
They get a lot more tenuous than that.
Take the MP, Sean Woodward.
He is listed as having shares in Sainsbury's, who run pharmacies and provide food for the NHS.
Diageo have been awarded money to teach midwives in England and Wales on the dangers of alcohol.
That's just weird.
Yes, some of these examples are a bit shaky and some aren't.
This is a list of 228 parliamentarians and it's using a very broad definition of what a financial connection is.
A lot of the parliamentarians have connections to some kind of private business, but whether it's really relevant to healthcare is another question.
Yes, that's the other important point.
The implication is that these 228 parliamentarians all voted for the bill.
We looked at the final reading and more than half of them did not vote for the bill.
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