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HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifth sitting)Clause 11 is particularly interesting. In August 2025, Alan Milburn was asked about the abolition of NHS England on the Health Foundation podcast. He said that the Government…23 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifth sitting)In a system as large as the NHS, covering an area as diverse as England, it is necessary that the Government be able to deal with unexpected situations. The pandemic may be half a…23 Jun 2026HANSARD Puberty BlockersMy hon. Friend raises a very good point, and I will come to the data linkage study shortly. What we do know from the Cass review is that the vast majority of children who went on…23 Jun 2026HANSARD Puberty BlockersI beg to move, That this House calls on the Government to take steps to prevent the PATHWAYS clinical trial into the effect of puberty suppressing hormones on children with gender…23 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourth sitting)I beg to move amendment 59, in clause 5, page 4, leave out lines 2 to 4 and insert— “(1) In exercising functions in relation to the health service, the Secretary of State must act…23 Jun 2026HANSARD Puberty BlockersI am sorry, but I just do not support that. We would not give children cocaine on the basis that they wanted it and would get it illegally otherwise. These are not sweeties; they…23 Jun 2026HANSARD Puberty BlockersThis is not a form of gene therapy. It is a medication that is a GnRH analogue, and what it essentially does is delay puberty. It was designed as a drug to treat children who go…23 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 47, in clause 11, page 8, leave out lines 15 to 30. This amendment prevents the Secretary of State from removing the Chief Executive of an integrated care…23 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourth sitting)I declare an interest as a member of the NHS workforce and an NHS consultant paediatrician. In England, around one in every 17 working people is employed by the national health…23 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifth sitting)I am talking predominantly about clinicians working in trusts who are trained and very experienced, but then move to work in the same trust but in a more managerial role that does…23 Jun 2026HANSARD Puberty BlockersI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention on devolution, and I am sure the Secretary of State was listening and considering what he has said. To go back to the age of the…23 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifth sitting)Will the Minister give way on that point?23 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is right. When all the new doctors that the Government have promised have been trained, they will need jobs and postgraduate medical training, and there are…23 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is right, but there are pressures and challenges for clinical academics, which he will be aware of. I am sure the Minister, in summing up, will tell us what she…23 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourth sitting)It is a pleasure to speak to clause 4 and this group of amendments. Health inequalities are commonly defined as the systemic differences in health status and distribution of…23 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifth sitting)If I heard the Minister right, she said that the clause did not provide for changes on the basis of ideology. However, it says that changes are not to be made “unless the…23 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifth sitting)Will the Minister give way on that point?23 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifth sitting)This is perhaps the oddest provision in the Bill. Since time immemorial, the Labour party has accused its political rivals of wanting to privatise the health service. In the early…23 Jun 2026HANSARD Puberty BlockersThe hon. Gentleman is exactly right, and he expresses my point succinctly. Why is the Secretary of State going ahead with a trial—experimenting on more children unnecessarily—when…23 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifth sitting)The Minister is talking about flexibility. I understand that if a Minister is responding to an unforeseen circumstance, he or she may be very busy, but where a direction has been…23 Jun 2026