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HANSARDNational Health Service (Dental Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2023My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Hunt for tabling this regret Motion and speaking so clearly to it, describing for your Lordships’ House what this actually means…05 Jun 2023HANSARDNHS GP Surgeries: Purchase by US CompaniesMy Lords, research has shown that GP surgeries owned by some private limited companies have been offering a lower level of care, with unqualified staff seeing patients. So, in…05 Jun 2023HANSARDCancer Referral TargetsTo ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that NHS trusts in England meet their target for cancer patients to be treated within two months of an urgent…05 Jun 2023HANSARDCancer Referral TargetsMy Lords, nearly 90% of cancer patients in 2010 received their first treatment within two months of urgent referral, which exceeded the operational standard, something the…05 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his considered reply, outlining the ways in which he believes the Bill supports where this amendment is going. I am also grateful to…25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill25 May 2023HANSARDNHS National Health Inequalities Improvement ProgrammeMy Lords, the levelling up White Paper promised to design and test a new approach to ensure compliance with school food standards. Although pilot schemes were meant to start last…25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this is an unusual group: it has just one amendment—Amendment 134 in the name of my noble friend Lord Stevenson. It has also been signed by the right reverend Prelate…25 May 2023HANSARDHealth: Economic InactivityMy Lords, ONS data shows that, for every 13 people working, one is suffering long-term sickness—a record number of people not in work due to ill health. So could the Minister…18 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI thank the Minister for giving way. There is a bit of a problem that I would like to raise. I think the Minister is saying that there should not be a code of practice in respect…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, observed, we have approached this group in an interesting way, having already heard the Minister’s feelings about the amendment.…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, the amendments in this group, which I am pleased to speak to now, shine a very bright light on the fact that there is no equality when it comes to abuse. We are not…16 May 2023HANSARDAutism: Diagnosis TargetsMy Lords, when it comes to autism services, we know that there are major disparities across the country which predate the pandemic but which were made much worse by it. The number…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I am most grateful to noble Lords across the Committee for their consideration and for their contributions in this important area. As the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron,…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI certainly agree with the noble Lord, Lord Bethell, on that point. It is absolutely right to talk about the danger of commercialisation and how it is such a driver of…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I shall speak to this group which includes Amendments 52, 99 and 222 in my name. These are complemented by Amendments 223 and 224 in the name of my noble friend Lord…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill11 May 2023HANSARDNHS: Allocation of Financial ResourcesMy Lords, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine described as unambitious the Government’s plan to see 76% of A&E waits meeting the four-hour standard by 2024. As this target has…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I am pleased to speak on this group of amendments, and I will particularly address the amendments in the name of my noble friend Lord Stevenson. To start with the very…09 May 2023HANSARDSecondary Metastatic Breast CancerMy Lords, modelling from Cancer Research UK shows that the number of cancer cases in the UK is projected to rise by as much as a third in the next 15 years. As it takes 15 years…09 May 2023