it does not extend to morris dancing. I will draw the point that he raises on behalf of his constituents to the attention of my colleagues at the Department for Communities and Local Government, and ask them to respond to it. Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter) (Lab): May we have a clear statement from the Government on their policy on regional pay? In May the Deputy Prime Minister said: "There is going to be no regional pay system. That is not going to happen." Yet 20 health trusts in south-west England have announced that they intend to abandon the NHS's national "Agenda for Change" pay structure and adopt just such a regional pay system. This is causing great concern and anger among thousands of NHS workers and their families across the south-west. 6 Sep 2012 : Column 387 Mr Lansley: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the opportunity further to reiterate -- we have discussed it in the past -- that we were not proposing regional pay. I made it clear in my previous role as Secretary of State for Health that we were proposing pay that was more reflective of local labour market circumstances, marketplace and pay. That is capable of being achieved through the "Agenda for Change" framework, and to that extent it is consistent with national frameworks for pay. The consortium of trusts has made it clear that its frustration is borne of the lack of progress in the national pay frameworks. Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger