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HANSARDEngagementsQ12. Following confirmation of the Crewe to Manchester leg of High Speed 2, the Alstom factory in Crewe winning an HS2 rolling stock contract and Crewe’s long history at the heart…15 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillWith the greatest possible respect, I do feel that I understand the challenges that the hon. Lady is talking about. I will go on to answer her question about the fact that we have…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillPerhaps the hon. Lady is inadvertently giving an incorrect impression of what I said. I made it very clear that this is the context for how clinicians behave in our NHS.10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillI encourage the hon. Lady to listen carefully to what I am saying. I said at the start of the debate that, absolutely, there are very good reasons for individual patients to…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) Billindicated dissent .10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillYes. I gently ask Opposition Members to consider whether they can think of any example where we have used primary legislation to further the advance of research for a particular…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillWill my hon. Friend give way?10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) Billrose —10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillI want to make it clear that we said there are approved and allowed uses of this treatment, and I do not doubt that it helps in some circumstances, but today we have ended up…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillI think we need to understand that this is not just about whether a treatment works for a particular patient. There are plenty of treatments that work, but with more study and…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillIt is very important that we do not allow our compassion and our concern about individual cases to cloud our judgment about the fact that the NHS, the Department of Health and…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillI think it is very important for Members to remember that, at various stages through medical evidence building, there have been occasions when people have said very strongly that…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillI welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. I congratulate the hon. Member for Manchester, Withington (Jeff Smith) on introducing the Bill and highlighting the issue. I…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillI am not familiar with the discussions the hon. Member may or may not have had—I am sure the hon. Member did have them—with the Government in relation to pots of money. Again, I…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillMy hon. Friend is correct to say that in other circumstances funding and pots of money are sometimes set aside to deliver improvement in a particular area. However, as she says,…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillI completely agree. I would just add that processes are in place because we are at the greatest risk of making mistakes when we are faced with people in very desperate…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillAs I said, my view is that there is nothing at the moment in any of the legislation or roles of the bodies that we already have in place that restrict them from looking at any…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillMembers say that they do not want to achieve that, so why are they bringing forward this legislation? If they do not think that it will make a difference to the use of a…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillThe hon. Member shouts from a sedentary position, but I am afraid that we are talking about a relevant issue. Labour Members want unlicensed treatments to be brought forward.…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillI think the hon. Member will understand that legislative progress is not an exercise purely in discussion. We should not be putting forward legislation if Members on one side of…10 Dec 2021