"Cllr Dowding is a senior local Tory politician. Presumably she therefore supports the plans of the Government to reduce the budget per person allowed to the Vale Royal Clinical Commissioning Group. This is not a measure to save money because it merely transfers the cash to more prosperous areas in the South. Even more outrageously, the current level paid to Vale Royal is already one of the lowest in the UK.

The planned measure will inevitably have a serious negative impact on health in this area because the local GPs will have less to spend on their patients.

I suggest that this is the first item on the Summit meeting on 6 February and look forward to hearing her response."