Virginia Bottomley MP NHS London Hospitals Mentally Ill 1992 Hand Signed Letter

CHAU3159  A vintage 1992 hand signed official letter from Conservative MP Virginia Bottomley writing directly about the Hospitals around London's Green Belt and how the patients mentally ill are causing a change in patterns - This is on headed paper personally autographed and (bar folded where posted) in absolute mint condition. (please note it is two full size sheets of A4 paper so I have fanned them and scanned together so you can see the general content and her signature too. Further images on request).

After unsuccessfully contesting the Isle of Wight in the 1983 general election (34,904 votes), she was elected to Parliament with 21,545 votes in a by-election in 1984 (filling the seat left vacant by the death of Maurice Macmillan, son of former prime minister Harold Macmillan), as the Member for South West Surrey, was PPS to Chris Patten and then to Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe, received her first ministerial position in 1988 as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of the Environment and was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1989.[9] She was appointed a member of the Privy Council (PC) upon joining John Major's Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health in 1992, becoming the ninth woman to serve in the British cabinet. She served as Health Secretary until 1995