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HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsI am always grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s wise counsel. He will know that I have regular meetings with my counterparts in the devolved nations. I am well aware of some of the…12 Feb 2026HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for adumbrating how 14 years of Tory Government have led to significant decay in the provision of primary care services in some of our…12 Feb 2026HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right: we need to unblock the referral pathways. The neighbourhood health service is all about ensuring that the process between general…12 Feb 2026HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsIt is a pleasure to take the traditional Department of Health and Social Care urgent question before recess—I would not miss it for the world. Since coming into office, we have…12 Feb 2026HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsAs I have stated, we have given pharmacies a record £3.1 billion settlement. We absolutely endorse the need for pharmacies to do more in our communities. We are enabling…12 Feb 2026HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Independent prescribers are a key and expanding part of our workforce, providing a sustainable primary care service. I am very happy for the…12 Feb 2026HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsI can assure the hon. Lady of our commitment to an effective primary care system up and down the country, in both rural and coastal communities. My hon. Friend the Minister for…12 Feb 2026HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsI can reassure the hon. Member that my hon. Friend the Minister for Care is looking at funding and primary care provision in the round in coastal and poorer communities, and I…12 Feb 2026HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsThe hon. Member is absolutely right: we need to unblock some of the referral pipelines between GPs and pharmacies. We are absolutely clear in our instructions to the system that…12 Feb 2026HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsPharmacy First is indeed a great initiative. It is not the first in this country; it has been developed in other parts of the country. When we came into office, we worked with the…12 Feb 2026HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsThis Government take our responsibilities seriously in providing an effective 21st-century primary-care NHS, free at the point of care. That is why when we came into power we…12 Feb 2026HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsThe hon. Member is right that under the Pharmacy First programme, contractors receive a monthly fixed payment upon delivering a minimum number of consultations, as per the 2025-26…12 Feb 2026HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsThank you, Mr Speaker. As I was saying, while the Conservatives left GPs on the scrapheap, this Government ensured—12 Feb 2026HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsI am reminded that Liberal Democrat Front Benchers always welcome funding for the NHS, but can never explain where the money should come from. I have already mentioned the record…12 Feb 2026HANSARD Pharmacy First: Withholding PaymentsAs the hon. Gentleman will know—or should know—the current remuneration method was agreed in conjunction with the sector. The adjustment was agreed with the sector’s…12 Feb 2026HANSARDBrain Tumour Survival RatesSacking people is above my pay grade, so I will revert to the Secretary of State’s opinion on that, but my hon. Friend can certainly be reassured that we will hold them…09 Feb 2026HANSARDBrain Tumour Survival RatesI could not agree more with my hon. Friend, and that is why NIHR funding has been specifically allocated. One of the tests for a grant is the diversity of the population it will…09 Feb 2026HANSARDBrain Tumour Survival RatesI am hearing my hon. Friend’s call to action loud and clear. I can report to her that—this is in addition to the other ongoing clinical trials in the area of brain tumour and…09 Feb 2026HANSARDBrain Tumour Survival RatesI am grateful to the right hon. Member for his remarks. At the risk of turning this into some sort of medical journal club—I will move on quite swiftly, Madam Deputy Speaker—let…09 Feb 2026HANSARDBrain Tumour Survival RatesI start by thanking my hon. Friend the Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh), and the hon. Members for Witney (Charlie Maynard) and for Kingswinford and South…09 Feb 2026