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HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend, and I pay tribute to the officials in the Department, who are working hard to clear the backlog and who do take this very seriously. As I say, we…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsAgain, I am grateful to the hon. Lady for the tone she adopts on what is actually a very sensitive and very important issue. I can reassure her that that issue does remain very…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend, who landed his question very effectively. He is absolutely right to talk about the balance between speed and accuracy. In some cases where the…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsI am a little bit surprised by the hon. Lady’s tone, because she and I speak regularly, and she has very easy access to me around the House, which she regularly uses, as do all…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsAs my right hon. Friend mentioned, he has recently tabled a number of written questions on this issue, to which I look forward to responding in a timely fashion. I am happy to pay…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsI was going to say that, as ever, I was grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his tone, right up to almost the end of his remarks. On his substantive points, when it comes to…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsI think the hon. Gentleman has four parliamentary questions outstanding. By his timely intervention, he may find that when I get back to the Department this afternoon, I will…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsI think it is fair to say that no one could accuse Ministers in the Department, including the Secretary of State, of not being willing to be accountable to Members in a multitude…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her question. I refer her to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley South (Mike Wood). We recognise both the increased…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsIt is always a pleasure to see my hon. Friend and to be questioned by him, both at this Dispatch Box and in other forums. I have to say to him that I do not think it is a fair…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsI hear what the hon. Lady says, but we have already put in place that capacity. We have doubled the capacity for parliamentary questions and I have significantly increased…19 Nov 2020HANSARDIndependent Reconfiguration PanelI congratulate the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Siobhain McDonagh) on securing this important debate. I recognise her continued interest in local health matters and her…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. As a former member of the Procedure Committee, I recall that she kindly appeared before the Committee to answer questions on parliamentary…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsI am, again, grateful for the tone that the hon. Gentleman adopts. We have adopted in our recovery plan an attempt to deal with the oldest questions first, to try to get as up to…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsI would say that she gave exemplary answers, which fully satisfied the Committee. I have received the letter that she recently sent to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State.…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsMy hon. Friend highlights that the workload from constituents has increased for all Members. I recognise that. It is important that we do our bit in trying to answer questions in…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsParliamentary questions are a key element of Parliament’s ability to scrutinise Government on behalf of the people of the United Kingdom. As the House would expect, we take them…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend. As he will be aware, other Departments, while they have heavy workloads, are not leading the response to the pandemic. In response to his final…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman is indeed a prolific questioner, but his questions are always welcome and to the point. He highlights an important aspect that affects the response of the…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsMy hon. Friend rightly raises the other methods of communication with right hon. and hon. Members and the other ways they can access information—not as an alternative to written…19 Nov 2020