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HANSARDNational Cancer PlanI am more than happy to do so. My diary secretary, who will be watching this from the Department of Health, is probably having kittens at the amount of meetings. I meet Shaun and…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanThe hon. Gentleman makes a good point. NICE is there for a particular reason: to ensure that the drugs being developed are available on the NHS when they meet the required…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanI congratulate the hon. Gentleman on being smoke-free. Hopefully, he is the first of many as we move towards a smoke-free UK by 2030. He makes a real and serious point about not…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanI am more than happy to meet the hon. Member and the team to look at precisely those points and I wish them all the very best in their fundraising efforts, but look, as a country…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanMy heart goes out to my hon. Friend. I lost both my parents to cancer, and it does not matter when it happens in your life; it is just heartbreaking. As the children of those…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanThat kind of experience is unacceptable, and the purpose of our plan is to demand better of the NHS and the system more widely when it comes to cancer outcomes. Nobody should have…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanAbsolutely. Things are advancing so quickly in technology and innovation. It is quite remarkable that science fiction is becoming science fact. We are obviously interested in…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanGood luck, Ruth! I hope she succeeds and raises lots of money for such a good cause. I want to thank my hon. Friend as well for his crucial work in this area. He has my assurances…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanMy hon. Friend has my assurance on all fronts there. Early diagnosis, more and better research, and identifying how we improve outcomes for people with a variety of cancers are…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanThe hon. Member makes a reasonable point, and part of the reason that we are having a refreshed workforce plan alongside the 10-year NHS plan is precisely to address some of the…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanMy hon. Friend makes a really important point, which is not lost on those of us on the Government Front Bench. There are real challenges across the healthcare system, and some of…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanThe right hon. Gentleman makes a very good point. I have certainly had a number of roundtables with the pharmaceutical sector in the UK about how we can support it, how we can…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanMy hon. Friend makes some really important points. The need to get people scanned more quickly, and to get results to consultants, is in part why we now have extra capacity…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanFirst, may I send my condolences to my hon. Friend and his family on the loss of his brother Alex? Of course rarer cancers are important, and they are a crucial part of what will…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanPart of our recovery plan is to ensure that we return the national health service to constitutional standards, not just in respect of cancer but across the board. We inherited a…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanMy hon. Friend raises such an important point. This Government have three shifts and I have mentioned two of them already: the shifts from hospital to community and from analogue…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanThe hon. Gentleman raises an important point. I also have regular meetings with ministerial colleagues in the Welsh Government, and this is an area of interest to both…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanI am grateful to my hon. Friend for being a member of the Committee for that Bill, which ended its business last Thursday. The hon. Members for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Dr…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Cancer PlanI thank the hon. Gentleman for the work that he did in this area in a previous guise. I am more than happy to meet him and Mike Nesbitt, with whom I had a meeting on drug strategy…04 Feb 2025HANSARD Accessibility of RadiotherapyIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John. I thank the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron) for bringing this important debate to Parliament on…04 Feb 2025