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Details of the bonuses dished out to bankers this year are starting to emerge and average an astonishing £200,000, writes John Mann MP.

These massive bonuses show that it is business as usual for the bankers. Ten years on from the start of the crash it appears that they haven’t learnt a thing - ordinary people are still suffering from their risk-taking while they rake it in. Meanwhile, we have some nurses and teachers struggling to get by.

Meanwhile, earlier this year Lound Hall Nursing Home was inspected by the Care Quality Commission and the report has now been released.

Lound Hall is registered to provide accommodation for up to 30 older people – although there are currently fewer than that in residence, some of whom are living with dementia.

It was rated as “inadequate” and the report makes for very troubling reading. CQC will be back for a further inspection within six months and if significant improvements have not been made they will take action.

In the Commons, I have been re-elected to the Treasury Select Committee in Parliament. The Committee examines Government spending and policy, including the Bank of England. I have had many run-ins as a member of the committee over the past few years, especially with chancellors trying to make pasties more expensive.

In all seriousness, it is an opportunity to challenge the Government on its spending plans, to push for more spending in areas like ours and for better infrastructure. That remains a priority for me and I will use my position on the committee to put Bassetlaw first.

Last week I spoke in Parliament in a debate on drug abuse. Back in 2002 I launched an inquiry when 13 local people died from heroin overdoses in one year. After a year of research, in which I went around the world with GPs to see what worked and what did not, I overwhelmingly came to the conclusion that we should simply trust the medical experts.

I found that the biggest rehabilitation that someone on heroin can get is going through the front door of their GP’s practice, like everybody else in the community like their mother, father, brother, sister, and sometimes their kids. It is going through the same door and seeing the same GP. It also saves us all money.

In 2002 the yearly average for the number of overdose admissions to Bassetlaw hospital was 170, each of which cost £4,000. That yearly average was immediately reduced to under 40, and it stayed like that for the next 11 years. That meant a saving of £500,000.

It also meant that we had the biggest fall in acquisitive crime in the whole of the United Kingdom. However, that has all been thrown away, as politicians removed the service from the GPs again, thinking that they knew best. The result? More burglaries. Sometimes the hardest thing for a politician is admitting that we don’t always know best.