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HANSARD Health and Care BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend, who has been open and consistent in expressing his concerns about this issue. He cites the 2014 Act, but it is important to note that those…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI have given way to the hon. Lady already in this debate, as I did in the debate on the previous group of amendments, so I shall make a little progress. She knows that I am always…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI am grateful to all colleagues who have spoken this evening. A number of the arguments were made on Report, and rightly, right hon. and hon. Members have reiterated some of those…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI beg to move Government amendment (a) to Lords amendment 91.30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillIt is a pleasure to debate their lordships’ amendments and to serve opposite the hon. Member for Tooting (Dr Allin-Khan) for our consideration of this group of amendments—I do not…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend. Again, I think that I speak for both sides of the House on a cross-party basis in saying that we were pleased to be able to accept his amendment,…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillMy hon. Friend makes an important and highly relevant point. I will certainly pass his request on to colleagues in the Ministry of Justice and the Attorney General’s Office to…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI am happy to join my hon. Friend in paying tribute to Paula McGowan and all those who have campaigned for this and other amendments that the Government have been able to accept…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI hear my right hon. Friend’s gentle but firm urgings, and I hope that he will welcome the progress that we have made.30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI am always happy—or the relevant Minister is always happy—to meet my right hon. Friend on any matter relating to the Department’s work. Turning to the Health Services Safety…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI am grateful to my right hon. Friend, who is absolutely right. We heard in this House, a little earlier this afternoon, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care present…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI am grateful to the Father of the House, who I believe, in the course of our discussions about whether to accept the Lords amendment, wrote to me, along with other right hon. and…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI am grateful to the hon. Lady not only for her comments just now, but for her work on this agenda and on HSSIB over many years on various incarnations of this legislation. She…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillIf I may just finish this point. I suspect my right hon. Friend may speak later on the amendments tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Greg Smith). A consultation…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. I know him well but I was not sure if would be able to predict exactly what he was going to say, so I am pleased that I have managed, to a…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillIf I can just finish this point, I will give way to my hon. Friend. Our preference is to continue with a proven and effective model of encouraging tobacco cessation. Ultimately,…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillTo a degree, that is why I mentioned the Javed Khan review. We are undertaking a lot of work and let us see what emerges from that, as well as from consultations and other pieces…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI will if my hon. Friend is brief, but I know that a lot of colleagues wish to speak on the abortion amendment and I want to give them enough time to do so.30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillMy understanding—although my recollection may fail me, so I caveat my comment with that—is that this was initially looked at that stage, but was not proceeded with. I know that my…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s LynnMy hon. Friend is even more dextrous than our hon. Friend the Member for North West Norfolk in seeking to tempt me into an indiscretion or a prejudgment of the application process…23 Mar 2022