article_snippet: Former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham was informed about concerns over maternity care at Morecambe Bay in January 2010.
article_snippet: Former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham, now Labour’s shadow health secretary, has repeatedly denied being made aware of ‘specific warnings’ about Furness General Hospital or putting any pressure on the Care Quality Commission to tone down criticism of the NHS ahead of the 2010 election.
article_snippet: But ’ Mr Morris, said ’ Mr Morris was ‘surprised and disappointed’ that Former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham had not been interviewed by the inquiry, chaired by Dr Bill Kirkup, a former Department of Health associate medical director who also served on an investigation into Hillsborough.
article_snippet: It’s hard to understand why the inquiry hasn’t listened to parents who wanted Former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham to be questioned,’ Mr Morris said.
article_snippet: parents who wanted Andy Burnham to be questioned should disclose the reasons why parents who wanted Andy Burnham to be questioned decided not to call Former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham.
article_snippet: In an email to Dr Kirkup, seen by the Daily Mail, ’ Mr Morris wrote: ‘I do want to put on record that I am very surprised and disappointed that an investigation into Hillsborough hasn’t interviewed Former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham.
article_snippet: Victims’ families reacted with anger when Former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham tried to arrange a meeting ahead of today’s findings.
article_snippet: Carl Hendrickson, whose wife and newborn son died, said: ‘None of us were interested.
article_snippet: Former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham has hidden under a stone for six years.
article_snippet: A spokesman for Former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham said A spokesman for Mr Burnhamacted entirely properly’ at all times in relation to Morecambe Bay.
article_snippet: A spokesman for Mr Burnham had volunteered to campaigners the fact that information on maternity care at the trust had been included in an annexe to a wider briefing on issues that might be raised in a meeting with a local MP in 2010.
article_snippet: A Labour Party spokesman said: ‘The report will dismiss these political allegations and confirm that no Labour health secretary was briefed on Morecambe Bay.
article_snippet: no Labour health secretary was briefed on Morecambe Bay will instead say that the terrible failings, which span this Government and the last one, were very localised.
article_snippet: An inquiry spokesman said The report ‘found no evidence that would have required an interview’ of Former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham.