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HANSARDHealth Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I tabled amendments to delete the clauses that will remove Healthwatch, but they have not been chosen for debate, because we can just vote against those clauses standing part. New…07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am very grateful to serve under your chairship, Ms Lewell. My hon. Friend the Member for Winchester has made some general points about Healthwatch and the importance of an…07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Thirteenth sitting)For the record, I tabled amendments to delete those clauses, so there was consistency of intention.07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The hon. Lady raises a good point. I do not want to revisit an earlier part of the debate, but it is certainly relevant that where there is not a local authority representative on…07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Twelfth sitting)I declare an interest as a member of the all-party parliamentary group on patient safety, which is opposed to the changes to HSSIB proposed in the Bill. Over the last couple of…07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Twelfth sitting)I wonder whether the right hon. Gentleman has had the experience that I have had as a constituency MP of very senior clinicians who work in the NHS attending my surgery and…07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am going to go on and give some examples. Central to the value and success of the Healthwatch network is its local focus and the fact it is centred in communities. Where it has…07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The hon. Member will know that Healthwatch was introduced almost as a direct consequence of the Francis review of Mid Staffordshire, so that was certainly the intention. I have…07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Will the hon. Gentleman give way?07 Jul 2026HANSARD Payment SchemeThe cultural point is really important because all the NHS scandals have this point of cultural failure, with cover-ups and defensiveness and people being badly let down. The…06 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)Oswestry is in Shropshire.02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)Amendment 70, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell, would require the Secretary of State to prepare and publish a risk assessment on the potential for digital…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)We have not seen a full design of the single patient record yet, but it is difficult to envisage what it would looks like for somebody who does not have access to the internet. It…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)I want to speak to amendment 6, which is tabled in my name, and amendment 7, which is consequential upon it. Amendment 6 would ensure that the CQC and NICE can “continue to make…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)The cross-border point is really important. A number of people will come into England from Wales to have their secondary care delivered, because that care is not available in…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)The importance of the amendment is that it requires this problem to be monitored in an ongoing way. Monitoring something usually makes the situation improve, so I will not…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 70, in clause 47, page 34, line 38, at end insert— “(6A) Before making regulations under this section, the Secretary of State must prepare and publish a…02 Jul 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsAt the all-party parliamentary group on digital communities, which I chair, we often hear from mobile network operators that one reason they do not serve rural areas properly is…01 Jul 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.01 Jul 2026