George Freeman

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George Freeman has been the Conservative MP for Mid Norfolk since 2010.[1] He was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department of Health in July 2014.[2]

Party Conference 2014

During the Conservative Party Conference 2014, the Social Market Foundation held a late night meeting on the future of the NHS. The event was sponsored by private health company Bupa, Freeman was scheduled to speak at the invitation-only event[3]. Another speaker at the event was SMF director Nigel Keohane, who has long argued the idea of charges to see a GP and bemoaned the slow pace of NHS privatisation.[4]

Notes

  1. George Freeman MP, House of Commons, accessed 15 July 2014.
  2. Ministerial appointments: July 2014, Prime Minister's Office, 15 July 2014.
  3. Solomon Hughes Private health lobbyists are funding a meeting with a Tory minister Vice, 27 Sep 2014, accessed 2 October 2014
  4. Joana Ramiro NHS activists seize Tories' Millbank HQ The People's Daily Morning Star, 30 September 2014, accessed 2 October 2014