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HANSARD CoronavirusThe short answer is that the British people do believe the Prime Minister now. We face a difficult choice, and my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth (Dr Evans) set it out…16 Jun 2021HANSARD CoronavirusAt the outset, I associate myself with the shadow Minister’s remarks in respect of our late colleague, Jo Cox. As we stand at this Dispatch Box, we can see the coat of arms above…16 Jun 2021HANSARD New Airedale HospitalI have known you a very long time, Sir Edward, so it is always a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship in this place. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPsychiatric Intensive Care Unit: DorsetMy hon. Friend takes a great interest in these matters and, as he will know, the number of places commissioned is a matter for NHS commissioners locally. I reassure him that we…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPsychiatric Intensive Care Unit: DorsetI am grateful to my hon. Friend, not least for providing me with my only opportunity to answer a question on the Order Paper today. I am delighted to confirm that St Ann’s…08 Jun 2021HANSARD Kettering General HospitalI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr Hollobone) on securing this debate about the redevelopment of Kettering General Hospital. I know that it is an…08 Jun 2021HANSARDA Plan for the NHS and Social CareI start by welcoming the right hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela Rayner) to her new post, and I wish her well in it. I apologise to her that she is facing me giving the…19 May 2021HANSARDAir Ambulance FundingIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I thank the hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk (Martyn Day). As the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for…26 Apr 2021HANSARD Elective Surgical Operations: Waiting ListsIt is a pleasure, as always, to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. May I start, as other hon. Members have done, by congratulating the hon. Member for Bootle (Peter Dowd) on…20 Apr 2021HANSARDLocal Health Services: ConsultationAlthough I am not familiar with the detail of the specific local case the hon. Gentleman raises, I am happy to meet him to discuss it if that is helpful to him.13 Apr 2021HANSARDLocal Health Services: ConsultationThe Government are committed to putting patients at the centre of our health service. Patients are consulted on their local health services in a wide variety of contexts,…13 Apr 2021HANSARDNHS England and NHS Improvement: Mandate for 2021-22The Prime Minister paid tribute to the extraordinary success of the UK’s covid-19 vaccination programme when setting out on 22 February 2021 his road map for easing lockdown…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusThis House has come together once again to consider coronavirus regulations. The contrast with the previous occasions on which we did so, of course, is that today we are debating…25 Mar 2021HANSARDSale of a Credit Guarantee Finance LoanIn 2005 the Department of Health, as it was then, made two loans under a policy created by HM Treasury called credit guarantee finance, one for the private finance initiative…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsMy hon. Friend is absolutely spot on. He is right to highlight the amazing effort by British business and by businesses that stepped up in this country’s hour of need to repurpose…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsThe hon. Gentleman made two points. On the latter, the Government will always look very carefully at anything he suggests to them. On the former, very serious point, if he is able…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsAlthough I am not the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, I hope the hon. Lady will none the less allow me to respond to her urgent question. The first duty of any Government in…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsThe right hon. Gentleman highlights quite accurately the 94%, which was cited in the subsequent judgment and the order that flowed from it, of the contracts that were late in…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsI am grateful to my right hon. and gallant Friend for his question. He is absolutely right to highlight that our No. 1 priority, as I think the people of this country and Members…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsI refer the hon. Lady, once again, to the answer I gave to my right hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough. I also highlight that, to the best of my recollection, no court and no…09 Mar 2021