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HANSARDNHS Workforce: Sickness Absence4. What steps he is taking to reduce sickness absence in the NHS workforce.14 Jul 2026HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI apologise.14 Jul 2026HANSARDNHS Workforce: Sickness AbsenceAs the Health Secretary is a numbers man, perhaps he will be interested in these figures. Research from Policy Exchange shows that sickness absence in the NHS costs £6 billion and…14 Jul 2026HANSARDBusiness of the HouseShocking!14 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I will give way to the hon. Lady after I finish my sentence, if I may. The public want to know what the solutions are. I think we could look back through history at successive…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourteenth sitting)My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The public do not want to hear about the last 14 years or the rhetoric around them.09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I will do that. As I have already said, no party has necessarily covered itself in glory with this issue. It might have taken us four years to dump it; it took the Chancellor of…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Lewell. Like the shadow Minister, I will be relatively brief. [Interruption.] It was not clear whether that was a sound of…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I certainly agree with the hon. Gentleman’s penultimate point: we need to support home-grown clinical academics and the life sciences industry in this country. As he has drawn me…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am, too.09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member; she makes an interesting point. She talks about irony, and I respond in the same manner as that which she intervened on me with a gentle…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I look forward to the new Prime Minister coming in and, I hope, providing a position where the hon. Member is able to achieve some of that. [Interruption.] I note for Hansard that…09 Jul 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe beautiful River Wey runs through my constituency, but storm overflows from the Farnham sewage treatment works are increasingly polluting the river, affecting my residents and…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I rise briefly to speak on this as well. I should note for the record that I am the vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on special educational needs and disabilities.…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Is that not part of the problem with the wording of the new clause? It is not clear, from the new clause, what is NHS data and what is the patient’s data, and who owns which bit…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourteenth sitting)It is very important that we consider these new clauses and amendments carefully, not least because, as my hon. Friend has just outlined, the hon. Member for Worthing West, who…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I do not mean this as a cheeky point, but is it not the case that clearly, as with everything, the Liberal Democrats think that the European Union can do no wrong? They do not see…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I respect immensely the hon. Gentleman’s experience. He described being a young doctor, but he is still a very young doctor/politician now. Of course, capacity is an essential…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Yes, I agree entirely with the hon. Gentleman. It would be a very slippery slope to write that into legislation. I understand the motivation—as I often do—behind Liberal Democrat…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I rise to support a lot of what my right hon. Friend the Member for Melton and Syston said. Across the Committee, I think we all agree that corridor care and care in other…09 Jul 2026