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HANSARDLesbian, Bisexual and Trans Women’s Health InequalitiesI congratulate the hon. Member for Livingston (Hannah Bardell) on securing this debate and on the sensitive but frank way she has approached it. We came into this place together,…10 Mar 2020HANSARDGP AppointmentsI am sure the hon. Gentleman will understand that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor might be a little upset if I started to make announcements from the Dispatch Box today. It is…10 Mar 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020I am quite happy to write to my hon. Friend on the specifics, rather than give her something that is not correct, because I do not have the exact answers to hand and that is not…09 Mar 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020I hear what my hon. Friend says and I assure her that conversations are under way with all elements of the public sector to ensure that people’s safety is paramount at all times:…09 Mar 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020If I may, I will write to the hon. Lady with accurate clarification on that, but the move to detain somebody would be when they were known to have the virus, and therefore on the…09 Mar 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020, No. 129). In the time available to me, I will remind hon. Members…09 Mar 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020I do not know whether I caught every one of those questions, but if I have missed any, I promise I will write to the hon. Lady to fill in the gaps. I will give it my best shot.…09 Mar 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020Liverpool. I will take this moment to put on record how brilliant not only the health service, but the local councils and everybody involved in the self-isolation of individuals…09 Mar 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020On enforcement, the police have powers to take individuals into custody and return them to designated places. Just as we invoked Arrowe Park and Kents Hill Park, we have other…09 Mar 2020HANSARD WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco ControlI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) for securing this important debate on the World Health Organisation framework convention on tobacco control. His…05 Mar 2020HANSARD WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco ControlI can certainly assure my hon. Friend that I am speaking with my officials all the time about how we can make programmes such as this more effective and ensure that they reach…05 Mar 2020HANSARD WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco ControlI will resist the temptation to name a date, as I am sure my hon. Friend appreciates that I have one or two other things on my desk at the moment, but we will make sure that the…05 Mar 2020HANSARD WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco ControlI thank the hon. Gentleman, and, yes, I will. There is a need to be smarter with what we do. As was stated, we will achieve the target in some communities, but not in others, so…05 Mar 2020HANSARD Health InequalitiesIf the hon. Gentleman will just bear with me and let me make a little more progress, I will come back to him. Going forward, I am clear that we must integrate good health into…04 Mar 2020HANSARD Health InequalitiesI beg to move an amendment, leave out from “10 Years On” to end and insert: “notes that Government is committed to level up outcomes to reduce the health gap between wealthy and…04 Mar 2020HANSARD Health InequalitiesI thank the hon. Member—he has just got himself a job as an ambassador. I congratulate him on quitting smoking, because it is hard. The specialist centre showed me that with the…04 Mar 2020HANSARD Health InequalitiesThe problems we are dealing with are complex across the piece, which is why we have held the public health budget at the same level this year so that we can start to deliver on…04 Mar 2020HANSARD Health InequalitiesIf the hon. Gentleman will bear with me for just a few minutes, I want to push on rather than incur the wrath of Madam Deputy Speaker. I am clear that there must be integration…04 Mar 2020HANSARD Health InequalitiesI ask the hon. Lady to bear with me for just a minute. It is important that we improve those with the worst-affected health the fastest. It is unacceptable that a man born in…04 Mar 2020HANSARD Health InequalitiesThe hon. Lady will appreciate that I cannot speak for all Departments, but it is my job to drive home the value of health in those Departments and to ensure that, as she says, we…04 Mar 2020