division_name: Opposition Day &#8212; [15th Allotted Day] &#8212; Accident and Emergency
motion: <p class="" pid="b.764.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.764.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House is concerned about recent Government statements on Accident and Emergency (A&amp;E) and Government claims that it is not in crisis; notes that last week, 79 A&amp;Es and the NHS overall missed the Government&#8217;s A&amp;E target; further notes that attendances at hospital A&amp;Es have increased three times faster since 2009-10 than in the period from 2004-05 to 2009-10, and that in the last 12 months more than one million people have waited more than four hours; believes there are a range of reasons for the current pressure on Accident and Emergency but that difficulty in accessing GP services is one of the primary causes; regrets the Government&#8217;s decision to cut funding for evening and weekend GP opening and scrap the guarantee of a GP appointment within 48 hours; and, to ease the pressure in Accident and Emergency, calls on the Government to reverse for winter 2013 its scrapping of the 48-hour appointment guarantee.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.801.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 242, Noes 307.</p>