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Dr Éoin Clarke @LabourEoin
The people of Wales say enough is enough. Welsh Government formally instruct Jeremy Hunt to stop smearing NHS Wales.
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Llywodraeth Cymru
Welsh Government
Ein cyf/Our ref: MB/MD/4554/14
Jeremy Hunt MP
Secretary of State for Health
Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NS
21 October 2014
Dear Mr Hunt,
I write in reply to your letter of yesterday's date. As a direct result of it, this is a final request for you to adhere to the normal conventions surrounding the publication of independent reports and end your attempts to subvert the process. If you do not, we will have to consider commissioning and publishing our own indepentend study by the OECD in a way which does not risk contamination by the overt politicisation of the process for which you are directly responsible.
The assertion in your letter that you feel you have a right to quote selectively from an unpublished report in the lead up to the General Election is truly shocking - it flies in the face of every principle of the proper conduct of public life. Your failure to clearly and openly set out such an intention at the time when the study was commissioned will appear to some to be deliberate and deceptive.
The NHS in Wales will not be the victim of any Conservative Party ploy to drag its reputation through the mud for entirely partisan political purposes.
Mark Drakeford AC/AM
Y Gweinidog lechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol
Minister for Health and Social Services
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