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HANSARDCovid Pandemic: Testing of Care Home ResidentsIt is relatively easy for the hon. Member to come to the House today and make these highly political points. Knowing how she and I worked together in the pandemic, and that she…01 Mar 2023HANSARDCovid Pandemic: Testing of Care Home ResidentsIt really feels as though Opposition Members have not been listening to my answers. The public health advice was followed. The situation was that we had a limited capacity for…01 Mar 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionA responsible Government take a responsible approach to funding our public services, including the NHS. Later I will come to exactly the point about the Opposition’s proposals to…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point. We hear about this source of funding again and again—we hear that non-doms will provide all this money—but plenty of the shadow Health…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI know that the hon. Gentleman feels very strongly about the issue; we have talked about radiotherapy. He will know that we have invested more than £160 million in improving…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI will not, as the hon. Gentleman had a long time at the Dispatch Box. Our talks are focused on pay, terms and conditions and enhancing productivity. We are hopeful that we will…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI am grateful for this chance to come to the House and talk about the NHS workforce. I am happy to begin with something that I expect is a point of agreement with those on the…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI will make a bit of progress, so that there is the opportunity for Back Benchers to speak. We have heard and will no doubt continue to hear about how we have been in power for 13…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionOn the contrary, we have already made progress on some things in our social care White Paper published just over a year ago. We will soon publish next steps, particularly focused…28 Feb 2023HANSARDEngland Rare Diseases Action Plan 2023The Government have published England’s second Rare Diseases Action Plan today, on international Rare Disease Day. Approximately 3.5 million people in the UK are living with one…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionMy hon. Friend makes a very good point about the selective use of figures by Opposition Members.28 Feb 2023HANSARDCystic Fibrosis: Living CostsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Harris. I thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) for not just securing the debate, but the tone in which he…02 Feb 2023HANSARDCystic Fibrosis: Living CostsI absolutely hear the hon. Member’s argument, and similar points were made during the debate. As the Minister with oversight of major conditions, cystic fibrosis is not the only…02 Feb 2023HANSARDCystic Fibrosis: Living CostsAs ever, the hon. Member is extremely persuasive. I will be happy to take that up with ministerial colleagues who are responsible for prescription charges, but I do say that this…02 Feb 2023HANSARDCystic Fibrosis: Living CostsThe hon. Gentleman makes an important point about having to travel further for appointments and treatment, which affects people in rural areas generally. Those costs will clearly…02 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Beds: Alexandra HospitalRight now, we are putting an extra £750 million into our health and social care system to free up beds in hospitals. Looking ahead, we will shift the dial on the decades-old…24 Jan 2023HANSARDNHS Beds: Alexandra HospitalI thank my hon. Friend for her excellent and important question about her local share of the £750 million of extra funding for discharge this winter. I can tell her that, in…24 Jan 2023HANSARDImpact of Brexit: RecruitmentWe have record numbers of staff in the NHS in England. We are on track to hit our target of 50,000 more nurses since 2019. Speaking of 50,000, there are more than 50,000 more…24 Jan 2023HANSARDImpact of Brexit: RecruitmentOf course the hon. Lady would like to make everything about either Brexit or the Union—or, most often, both—but the fact is that a doctor, nurse or care worker from the EU who…24 Jan 2023HANSARDImpact of Brexit: RecruitmentIf the hon. Gentleman had been listening to earlier questions, he would have heard about the increased number of GPs in England, with more than 2,000 more GPs now working in…24 Jan 2023