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HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty Second sitting)As ever, I am grateful to hon. Members for highlighting issues relating to new clauses 67 and 68 for debate. I reassure the Committee that the Government continually assess the…02 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty Second sitting)I will give way to the hon. Lady—not least so that I can have a glass of water.02 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty Second sitting)I am very touched by her medical concern for my welfare. In light of the reduction in activity within dentistry due to the pandemic, dental practices have been asked to deliver as…02 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty Second sitting)As the shadow Minister set out, the new clause would place a statutory responsibility on the Secretary of State, requiring him or her to direct NHS England to appoint an allergy…02 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty Second sitting)I am grateful to hon. Members for bringing this issue before the Committee: I think we have all received correspondence on it from the various royal colleges. New clause 65 would…02 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty Second sitting)It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair this morning, Mr Bone. The new clause would introduce a requirement for an NHS body to notify the relevant local authority once it had…02 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty First sitting)The hon. Lady may be about to agree with me; she is welcome to do so.28 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twentieth sitting)Except perhaps the proper conduct of proceedings. Moving on swiftly, new clause 33 seeks to change the current flavour ban, which would of course be the context in which I was…28 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twentieth sitting)As has been set out, this new clause would make provision to ensure that alcoholic drinks display the chief medical officer’s low-risk drinking guidelines, a warning intended to…28 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twentieth sitting)As ever, I am grateful to the shadow Minister for his exposition of the new clause, which would introduce a duty on the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to publish an…28 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty First sitting)I can reassure the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston, that I am not aware of how many FOIs he tables, which is possibly as it should be; it suggests…28 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty First sitting)I go back to the point I made: there are some perfectly legitimate professions—where there is an expectation and understanding of what they do and a respect for what they do—who…28 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty First sitting)The shadow Minister pushes me a little further than I can go today. However, what I can say is that I have considerable sympathy with what he has said. I will undertake to look at…28 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty First sitting)The hon. Lady is absolutely right to raise that. We need to get across, loud and clear, to our future clinicians almost right from the start—from their training and early…28 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty First sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for this discussion. I reassure members of the Committee that the Government remain absolutely committed to ensuring that UK patients,…28 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty First sitting)It is possibly lucky for the Government that the hon. Member for Swansea East is not on this Committee, because she can be extremely persuasive. In my role at the Ministry of…28 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twentieth sitting)That is the point I was seeking to make. Smoking cessation services would still continue as normal. The argument from the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Nottingham…28 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty First sitting)This new clause would create an obligation on ICBs to develop system-wide data-sharing IT systems. It would also require them to set and report on targets linked to outputs from…28 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty First sitting)The new clause would require ICBs to provide specialist domestic violence and abuse training, support and referral programmes to all GPs, with the aim of strengthening the health…28 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty First sitting)We may be okay.28 Oct 2021