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HANSARDHealth Bill (Eighth sitting)I will raise some similar concerns about the abolition of integrated care partnerships and integrated care strategies, which clause 23 brings about. Before I do, I should declare…30 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eighth sitting)The hon. Member will be aware that the new clause is a probing amendment. It is designed to push the Minister to describe how we will ensure that this range of expertise is taken…30 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eighth sitting)I wish to speak to amendment 36 and new clause 59, which are different ways of seeking to do the same thing. They are aimed at ensuring that “civil servants are responsible for…30 Jun 2026HANSARD National Maternity and Neonatal InvestigationMay I also add my thanks to the Secretary of State, to Baroness Amos and her team, and to the families that have relived the pain of their experiences to bring about this report?…30 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eighth sitting)I had finished speaking, but I will give way and think of something else to say.30 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eighth sitting)We cannot see the resources allocated, so we cannot confirm that, but it is clearly a concern. We are not yet discussing the part of the Bill that deals with Healthwatch, so I…30 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eighth sitting)As I mentioned in my previous remarks, one imagines that a Secretary of State would set out criteria to ensure that the best people for the job are appointed. We are in a…30 Jun 2026HANSARD Asylum AccommodationMay I raise my concerns about the site at Stoke Heath, which was mentioned by the right hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mark Pritchard)? It is a really rural location, with the…29 Jun 2026HANSARDNational ResilienceWater resilience is very much on people’s minds this week. When a canal embankment collapsed in Whitchurch in my constituency just before Christmas, I found out that the canal…25 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Seventh sitting)I want to speak to amendment 63, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron). As hon. Members know, he has campaigned passionately and for a long…25 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Seventh sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn . Clause 15 ordered to stand part of the Bill . Clause 16 Regulations about commissioning by…25 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Dr Huq. I am moving this amendment on behalf of my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran), who is the…25 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Sixth sitting)Yes, we would support the amendment, which is a reasonable way to get there, but an assurance from the Minister that the Department will consider specialist commissioning and…25 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Seventh sitting)I want to draw the Minister’s attention to some of the difficulties relating to cross-border healthcare in a border area. I represent an area on a border. North Shropshire has a…25 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms Lewell. In general, the Liberal Democrats support clauses 12 and 13. We think that local decision making and community…25 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Sixth sitting)Well, I will just move on a little bit. The important question is: can this be achieved this overnight? Clearly not; we need additional clinicians in the service. The Liberal…25 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Sixth sitting)I am going to make some progress, actually, because I think I am going to be asked the same questions.25 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Sixth sitting)That is exactly what new clause 2 seeks to drive at.25 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Sixth sitting)The right hon. Gentleman asks an extremely important question, and I am happy to clarify. It would be an appropriate clinician within the GP practice, and it could obviously be a…25 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Sixth sitting)We do not consider the right to achieve a cancer diagnosis and treatment to be burdensome on the secondary care providers of those treatments; we consider that important enough to…25 Jun 2026