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HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaFor a brief moment, I thought my hon. Friend was not going to mention the new hospital at Kettering. Yes, I am very happy to have that conversation with NHS England colleagues as…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaWe should make sure that general practice is an attractive career for newly qualified doctors wherever they are in the country. I suspect it will be for those individuals joining…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman —my hon. Friend—for his question. The Chancellor will set out the detail of Barnett consequentials in due course. The hon. Gentleman knows that…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaThe Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow has no greater champion that my right hon. Friend. I reassure him that, as he knows, it is on the list of 40 new hospitals that we are…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Everyone loves a trier in this place, particularly on behalf of their constituents. I have met him to discuss this, as he alludes to. I think…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaMy hon. Friend asks a key question. I can reassure him that he will see that plan published in the coming weeks. I know that he will both study it carefully and hold me and the…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaThe hon. Lady knows that I have a huge amount of respect for her and her work in this House. She is absolutely right to highlight the need for parity of esteem not just to be a…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaThe hon. Lady will know that, while her local clinical commissioning group—her local health system—may well be considering various options, it has not put any particular option…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaMy hon. Friend is coming back for a second bite of the cherry after Health and Social Care questions last week. I am well aware that there is significant housing development in…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaThe right hon. Lady makes a good point. It is an interesting idea and I will certainly reflect on it.25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaI entirely appreciate where my right hon. Friend is coming at this from. I hope that, in answering my right hon. Friend the Member for Forest of Dean (Mr Harper), I was clear that…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for welcoming the capital and for his tone. Quite rightly, he highlights the workforce point again. I go back to what I said to the hon. Member…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaI know that the hon. Gentleman genuinely feels strongly about this issue. He and I discussed it in a recent debate in Westminster Hall, and I think I am due to meet him to discuss…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaI always listen with great care to my right hon. Friend. He is right that we in this House, on behalf of taxpayers, provide the resources to the NHS and others to deliver the…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. We have rightly set out what we are doing to increase numbers through recruitment, but as she says a key part is retaining the skilled and…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaI am grateful to my hon. Friend, indeed my friend, and I understand and entirely appreciate where he is coming from. He is an assiduous parliamentarian and quite rightly, as Mr…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaThe hon. Lady is right that the waiting list is 5.7 million and growing. As she will have seen, the Secretary of State has made it clear that the number could grow to more than 13…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaMr Speaker, I hope that you will recognise that I seek to be assiduous in my accountability to this House and in adhering to its protocols and forms, not least as a former member…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaMy hon. Friend makes an interesting and important point. These will be new diagnostic hubs, but he alludes to a central point. For example, there could be a hub in the car park of…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman—my constituency neighbour—for his sensible and reasonable questions. I will endeavour to answer each of them in turn. On capital, he will…25 Oct 2021