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HANSARDDHSC 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 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 2020HANSARDNon-covid-19 Healthcare TreatmentI share my hon. Friend’s fulsome praise of the staff at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and the work that they are doing. They have a strong champion in him. Indeed, I pay…17 Nov 2020HANSARDNHS Capacity for Winter 2020-21I am delighted that my hon. Friend’s constituents will benefit from £3 million to increase capacity at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley as part of the investment to upgrade A&Es…17 Nov 2020HANSARDNon-covid-19 Healthcare TreatmentI am grateful to the shadow Minister, who always asks measured and sensible questions. He is right to ask that particular question, but I am very happy for him to raise with me…17 Nov 2020HANSARDNon-covid-19 Healthcare TreatmentThe Government are supporting the NHS’s ambition to continue to restore elective services for non-covid patients, while of course recognising the pressure on services from…17 Nov 2020HANSARDNHS Capacity for Winter 2020-21The Prime Minister has announced £3 billion to support NHS capacity this winter. Among other things, that money funds our Nightingale hospitals, so that surge capacity is…17 Nov 2020HANSARDNon-covid-19 Healthcare TreatmentThe NHS is working hard to maintain elective activity as far as possible during the second wave with extra funding, as has been set out. As shown in published September data,…17 Nov 2020HANSARDNHS Capacity for Winter 2020-21I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. He is quite right to highlight the amazing work that our NHS and social care workforce have done throughout this pandemic, as they do every…17 Nov 2020HANSARDBuilding New HospitalsOn 2 October, £3.7 billion-worth of funding was confirmed for 40 new hospitals, with a further eight schemes invited to bid for future funding, to deliver a total of 48 hospitals…17 Nov 2020HANSARDBuilding New HospitalsI am pleased to confirm to my right hon. Friend, a distinguished predecessor of mine in this office, at this Dispatch Box that £6 million-worth of funding has been approved in…17 Nov 2020HANSARDBuilding New HospitalsI am delighted that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently gave these plans the green light following independent advice from the IRP, and I am pleased that this…17 Nov 2020HANSARDSmokefree England: Covid-19 and PHE AbolitionI will not seek to outdo my hon. Friend in his knowledge of music or, possibly, his expertise in this area, but I will certainly convey that point to my hon. Friend the Member for…12 Nov 2020HANSARDSmokefree England: Covid-19 and PHE AbolitionIt is a pleasure, as always, to appear opposite the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Nottingham North (Alex Norris). It is happening with regularity: three times on three…12 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the way in which he made his points, which made, as ever, measured and reasonable. As I have said, I entirely understand—as anyone in this…11 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19I beg to move, That this House has considered covid-19. Last Wednesday, this House came together to vote in favour of a new time-limited set of national restrictions across…11 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. In taking the action we are taking to protect the NHS, we are of course also seeking to suppress the number of people who need…11 Nov 2020HANSARDExiting the European Union (Agriculture)I beg to move, That the draft Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, which were laid before this House on 14 October, be…10 Nov 2020HANSARDExiting the European Union (Agriculture)I will take that as a clear invitation. Sam Beggs, who was a fantastic member of staff to both the hon. Gentleman and me, always sang the praises of Strangford. I need no more…10 Nov 2020HANSARDExiting the European Union (Agriculture)I am grateful to hon. Members for a typically informed and focused debate. It is a pleasure, as always, to appear opposite the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Justin…10 Nov 2020