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HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for his indication of broad support for our proposals. He is right: there is a significant degree of transposition and replication of what was…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Tenth sitting)I hear the cries of disappointment from the Opposition. Clause 43 places a new duty on English NHS trusts, and clause 57 places a new duty on NHS foundation trusts, to have regard…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Tenth sitting)I hope I can reassure you, Mr McCabe, and the Committee that I do not intend to speak for anywhere near as long as I did on the previous group.21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Tenth sitting)With your indulgence, Mr McCabe, and that of the Committee, I will start with clause 39, followed by clauses 40 and 41 and schedule 7, and then go through the remaining clauses in…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Tenth sitting)I suspect that, with this, we get to the main event of this afternoon’s proceedings. I begin with clause 37, which introduces powers for the Secretary of State to give directions…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Tenth sitting)I will be brief, because I believe that in responding to the shadow Minister’s amendment I set out the intentions behind the clause and the reasons why it is drafted as it is.…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Tenth sitting)If I may, I will turn to the amendments first and then the substantive clause. I am grateful to hon. Members for tabling the amendments. I said that the previous clause was coming…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Tenth sitting)There are a few points that I will seek to address. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Nottingham North for highlighting the accountability of the Secretary of State—he also…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Ninth sitting)I will endeavour not to be on my feet at that moment. Clause 33 inserts new section 1GA into the National Health Service Act 2006, which sets out a duty on the Secretary of State…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Ninth sitting)The hon. Lady alludes to it not being normal form for a Whip to intervene, but her contribution is, as ever, extremely valuable in this context—particularly given the work that…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Ninth sitting)I do not know whether the shadow Minister has seen what I was about to say, but after two years of doing this together, he has become relatively psychic. I anticipate that the…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Ninth sitting)The shadow Minister is an able parliamentarian. I hesitate to say with certainty, but my belief is none at present. However, I caveat that by saying I would not wish to mislead…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Ninth sitting)I believe that all appointments, including that one, are conducted entirely appropriately, in line with Cabinet Office guidance. I move on to the shadow Minister’s substantive…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Ninth sitting)NHS England and NHS Improvement, comprised of Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority—the TDA—requested the primary legislative changes to support the merger of their…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Ninth sitting)Mrs Murray, it is—even more than usual—a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship: I am still standing before you in this Committee and opposite the hon. Member for Ellesmere…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)A number of the points raised by hon. Members, while touching on the amendments, will be addressed substantively in the clause stand part debate that is just about to take place.…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)In opening the debate on this clause, I highlight the contributions made by my hon. Friends the Members for Stoke-on-Trent Central and for Cheadle. I suspect that, in my…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)I will respond very briefly. The shadow Minister raises two key bundles of points. I hope that I can reassure him that the approach adopted here is far from restricting access. It…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)The clause requires NHS England to publish rules setting out which people each ICB is responsible for. We intend to recreate as closely as possible the arrangements that currently…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)I will try to address each of the shadow Minister’s points one by one, perhaps not in an entirely fluent way. The hon. Gentleman asked about what he perceived to be an…16 Sept 2021