Urgent Question on negotiations for a new junior doctors' contract: 20 November 2015
20 November 2015 (updated on 20 November 2015)
The Minister of State for the Department of Health, Alistair Burt, responded to an Urgent Question asked by Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Heidi Alexander, in the House of Commons on the negotiations for a new junior doctors' contract on Friday 20 November 2015.
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House of Commons Library analysis
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