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HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I welcome the spirit in which the shadow Minister brings this issue to the Committee. He is right to highlight not only the words “parity of esteem” but what they mean in…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I put on record my gratitude to my hon. Friend the Member for Newton Abbot and to the hon. Member for Nottingham North for enabling this discussion to take place in Committee…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighteenth sitting)If I was unclear, I apologise; that was not the intention of what I was saying. I sought to say that that partnership work brings together organisations that, I believe, do focus…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member for Bristol South for tabling this new clause. Much of what we discussed in relation to amendment 34 is relevant here as well. She says she seeks…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)He clearly knows something I do not.27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston for bringing this discussion before the Committee today, and I join him in paying tribute to my right hon. Friend…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston, for his framing of the new clause in his opening remarks. The new clause would place the…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I see the look on the shadow Minister’s face, which makes me wonder what is coming.27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)The new clause would place a new statutory responsibility on integrated care boards to publish, at least every two years, “a report setting out an analysis of the current…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)As the hon. Member for Nottingham North set out, the new clause seeks to legislate for an additional duty on the Secretary of State to provide access to occupational health…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)The hon. Gentleman’s new clause would effectively prevent NHS foundation trusts from increasing their income from private patients year on year unless a number of specified…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The clauses relate to the oversight of HSSIB’s functions. Clause 113 enables the Secretary of State to direct HSSIB to exercise its functions within a specified time period and in…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)A number of questions were asked that I will seek to address. If I cannot answer the specific points raised, I will write to clarify them. The hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The clauses address HSSIB’s relationships with other bodies, including with the devolved Administrations. Clause 110 places a requirement on HSSIB and a number of listed bodies,…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I know that my hon. Friend has done a lot of work in this space, possibly involving the all-party parliamentary group for whistleblowing. I know she is very concerned to make sure…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The role of the coroner is very specific, which is why we have singled out coroners, because their role is to investigate deaths. Hopefully, a large number of the investigations…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady and the hon. Gentleman, and I think the points they made are linked. The distinction we draw with other organisations and individuals is because of…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving us, through amendment 116, an opportunity to debate and discuss this issue. Every stillbirth and death related to childbirth is a…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I will also endeavour not to detain the Committee for too long. I do not believe there is any discrepancy; I believe there is consistency there. The shadow Minister has…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)These clauses cover further detail regarding offences created in part 4 of the Bill and interpreting part 4 of the Bill more generally. Clause 115 specifies that when an offence…26 Oct 2021