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HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I will confine my comments to amendments 47 and 83, because we will address the wider themes when we have the clause stand part debate. Amendments 47 and 83 stand in the names of…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)The clause provides for a number of financial responsibilities of NHS England and provides powers for the Secretary of State to direct NHS England in relation to those…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I will be relatively brief because I am conscious of the fact that we have agreed to get through quite a few more clauses today, although I will try to address the points that…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)Clause 23 provides for NHS England to set overall system financial objectives for ICBs, NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts, which must operate with a view to achieving these…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure once again to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Murray. I am grateful to the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Nottingham North, and to the hon. Member for…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)As I do regularly.16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)It is a pleasure once again to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott. Government amendments 12 and 13 are both technical amendments that clarify the commissioning…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 12, in clause 15, page 13, line 22, at end insert— “(ba) medical services other than primary medical services (for primary medical services, see Part 4),”.…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)It is right that we discuss this point today, because while the focus of the media is often on the 40 new hospitals being built—a very clear and understandable definition; I am…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)The schedule details essential information about how we expect statutory ICBs to function and about the essential criteria that ICB constitutions must fulfil. It sets out that ICB…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)This clause inserts 31 new sections into the NHS Act 2006. It is the cornerstone of the integrated care board provisions, as it sets out the functions and duties that ICBs are…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and I share his view that it is crucial that integrated care boards co-operate with the Domestic Abuse Commissioner. I think I speak for the…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingswood for tabling his amendments and allowing us to have this debate. As has been mentioned, he was both my distinguished…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston, for facilitating the debate on this matter, and, as I said, I admire his ability at pace and…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I am envying the shadow Minister’s breath control as he runs through his list.16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for tabling the amendment and giving us the opportunity to debate it. Of course we understand the importance of reducing waiting times. The…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I will respond only briefly, because the only outstanding point that the hon. Lady rightly made was about paragraph (f). My understanding is that palliative care services and…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 (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)I am grateful, as ever, to my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingswood for his comments. I hope I can reassure him that the issues he raised, and the issues that he has aired in…16 Sept 2021