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HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eleventh sitting)I express my gratitude—I may be less grateful when I sum up—to hon. Members for tabling the amendments, and for the discussion that we are going to have about the NHS payment…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eleventh sitting)As with so much else in the Bill, we are trying to future-proof it. Indeed, the shadow Minister and others made the point in a different context. Where are the powers? What are…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eleventh sitting)Because we wish to take the opportunity to further drive forward the integration. The system has evolved, but we want to be more ambitious. The powers reflect the fact that the…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady, but those joint appointments have always gone on—they have existed for many years. The example I referred to was in about 2008 or 2009, and it…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eleventh sitting)Before I speak to clauses 63 and 64, I crave your indulgence, Mrs Murray: I should have said to the shadow Minister that the previous clauses were about delegation from the NHS to…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for his support for the clauses and for the, as ever, perfectly sensible questions he poses. I hope to reassure him that the intention behind…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eleventh sitting)As the Committee knows, one intention of the Bill is to create more flexibility, alongside the promotion of greater local integration. The clauses help to allow local bodies to…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twelfth sitting)I welcome the sentiments underpinning some of Opposition Members’ comments about our changes to section 75. I am nothing if not prepared to listen and be pragmatic, and I am glad…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twelfth sitting)I concur with the sentiments that the hon. Gentleman has expressed. It is absolutely right not only to have the right model in place but that that model moves swiftly and…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twelfth sitting)I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that “may” is the technical language used in drafting such legislation, but we intend that they will be made. I am afraid I will disappoint him…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twelfth sitting)I will be brief because we covered key aspects of clause 68 in debates on the amendments. The clause inserts proposed new section 12ZB into the NHS Act 2006. Section 12ZB allows…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twelfth sitting)It is a pleasure, once again, Mr McCabe, to serve under your chairmanship. I fear I may not persuade Opposition Members not to press amendment 100—but you never know, so I will…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twelfth sitting)Before the hon. Lady asks more questions, I may be able to reassure her by adding to what I said this morning as I have now discussed this further. I said “expeditiously”; I am…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eleventh sitting)The shadow Minister tempts me to name and shame. He may be tempting me in vain. He raised three key points. One was about one person doing two jobs. To paraphrase him, he asked…23 Sept 2021HANSARD Future of the National Health ServiceI will make a little bit of progress, because I want to address the hon. Lady’s allegations about privatisation and workforce. If we have time at the end, I will of course seek to…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Future of the National Health ServiceMy hon. Friend makes a fair point about the need for us to create the conditions—the physical spaces with the technology—in which the workforce, which is the heart of our NHS, can…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Future of the National Health ServiceWill the hon. Lady forgive me? I was not questioning the integrity of what she said, but I was suggesting that there was no risk of that system as she described it developing in…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Future of the National Health ServiceIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Bardell; I think that I do so for the first time. Although I suspect that it is fair to say that the hon. Member for Leeds…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Future of the National Health ServiceI will turn to those key points in a moment, but first I will address the specifics. The point I made to the Chair of the BMA council in Committee was that, if I recall rightly,…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Future of the National Health ServiceI appreciate why Opposition Members might not want to hear what Labour Governments did in the past, given the extent to which they massively accelerated the privatisation of our…22 Sept 2021