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HANSARDHealth Bill (Thirteenth sitting)No, I am not. Schedule 8 Transfer of HSSIB’s Functions to CQC07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Tenth sitting)I rise to talk about amendment 8. I essentially understand what the hon. Member for Winchester is trying to do—to make sure that carers are provided with the information that they…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Tenth sitting)Clause 43 is particularly long: it runs to almost two pages of text. Essentially, clause 43 transfers the responsibility for funding ICBs, and deciding how they use the resources,…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Tenth sitting)I understand what my hon. Friend is saying; he is making a very good speech. I wonder whether he agrees that one of the challenges for us as legislators, in looking at all the…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Tenth sitting)Will the Minister confirm whether the intention of the Government is to separate parts of the record out so that people can give consent for part of the record to be shared, but…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Tenth sitting)I understand the hon. Member’s point, but we need to start with the patient at the centre and ask what is best for patient care. It is about what the patient wants to share with…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Tenth sitting)The amendments would introduce a primary care investment standard, requiring the ICBs to increase spending on primary care services at least in line with the growth of the total…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)There is no detail in the Bill. As my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight East said, there is nothing in the legislation requiring the computers in his local area to talk to…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Tenth sitting)My hon. Friend is talking about uncertainty. Essentially, those powers could not be used at all to direct or they could be used to micromanage. It is not clear what the intent is.02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am interested in what the hon. Gentleman is saying. Does he agree that, in many ways, the NHS dataset will be one of the most valuable datasets in the world, not only to…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)My point was that this can sometimes be beneficial. If a clinician sees a young lady who has collapsed at school, she might have fainted or had a fit. There are a lot of different…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Tenth sitting)Clause 45 makes technical changes to the licence conditions, allowing the Secretary of State to use those conditions as a tool to ensure compliance with legal requirements beyond…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Tenth sitting)Amendments 9 and 10 have some similar issues to the last two Liberal Democrat amendments. They referred to the primary care investment, while these amendments refer to the mental…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)Is it not also the case that anyone who is aware that an employee or relative has a licence and is concerned about their mental health can make such a report?02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 48, in clause 47, page 36, line 1, at end insert— “(4A) Regulations may not be laid under this section unless the Secretary of State has published a plan…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am advised to declare that, although I am not a licence holder of a shotgun or a rifle, my husband has both a shotgun and a firearms licence.02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)Amendment 70, as the hon. Member for North Shropshire said, would require the Secretary of State to publish a risk assessment on the potential for digital exclusion in the single…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)Clause 47 amends the existing legislation to facilitate the single patient record. We have heard about the many benefits that it may bring, for example for patients who find…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)We think this is an important issue, so we would like to divide the Committee. Question put, That the amendment be made.02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)My hon. Friend is making a very important point. Does he also think that it is possible for the system to have some designs built into it that identify that someone from another…02 Jul 2026