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HANSARD NHS Funding BillIs that not the most critical weakness in the Bill? Given that inflation is expected to rise after Brexit, the figures for 2023-24 are just guesswork. There should be a commitment…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillI thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. I welcome his suggestion of a central design team, because the NHS is over 70 years old and we seem repeatedly to reinvent the…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillDoes the hon. Member recognise that we all know what we should be doing to look after our physical health—there is a handful of five key points—but that most of us have no idea…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillWe have discussed today, and on many other occasions, the issues relating to child and adolescent mental health and the pressure that young people are under right across the UK,…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillDoes my hon. Friend agree that per capita is a much more informative way of describing spending, because demand is increasingly rapidly, with an ageing population that is not…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillIs it not particular to mental health that when we use the phrase “mental health” we actually mean illness? We all have mental health, sometimes good and sometimes bad. If we…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillDoes my hon. Friend agree that, as I mentioned earlier, the fact that inflation could make these cash rises meaningless makes it very difficult for the Scottish Government to…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillIt is often cast up here that the Government in Scotland are not spending all the Barnett consequentials on health, but they do. The problem is that although the Government here…04 Feb 2020HANSARD Paterson InquiryHaving been a breast cancer surgeon for 33 years, I find this case heartbreaking, and I can only apologise on behalf of the profession. The hon. Member for Leicester South…04 Feb 2020HANSARDNHS Funding Billindicated dissent .27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillMy hon. Friend does a lot of work on this topic. There is no doubt that a lot of investment must go into children’s earliest years, because our risk of so many conditions in later…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillThe whole issue of English votes for English laws applying to Bills that have direct Barnett consequentials for the three devolved Governments is obviously complete nonsense, and…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillHaving spent 33 years as a surgeon at the very sharp end of the NHS, I welcome the multi-year funding because it should allow better planning, but it does come after a decade of…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillThe right hon. Gentleman’s overall figure for health spend is correct, but the public health spend—as opposed to private patients—is only 7.5% of GDP, and that is the figure the…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillTo clarify the point, are the Government committed to buying out the PFIs that are currently a burden on health boards and trusts?27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillThe hon. Gentleman was not in his place when I spoke earlier to point out the fact that if the global funding in Scotland is higher, the Barnett consequential makes a smaller…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillIn a debate in August 2017, the Minister at the time agreed to reduce the starting age for bowel cancer screening in England from 60 to 50—as it has always been in Scotland—but…27 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillThe SNP group supports all five of the Lords amendments and will therefore be voting against the Government. With regard to a declaratory system, the Secretary of State keeps…22 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareI know that the right hon. Gentleman visited the Scottish patient safety programme to see in action the WHO checklist, which is designed precisely to prevent such events, so can…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareTalking about assets, do we not also need to sweat the assets that are in the community? In Scotland, we have had community pharmacies with minor ailment services since 2005, and…16 Jan 2020