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HANSARDHealth Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The Government’s proposal to abolish the independent voice of patients is a mistake. It is a backward step, and I have seen no compelling reason why it should happen. Apparently,…07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Will the Minister give way?07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Twelfth sitting)My hon. Friend leads me to a point I was going to make later, but I will make it now. He is absolutely right: the CQC has not had a lot of good press and does not instil a high…07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am a member of the Health and Social Care Committee, and the hon. Member is absolutely right to say that Healthwatch England raises issues with us. When the Department assumes…07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Twelfth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. The issues relating to clause 59, principally the abolition of HSSIB, have been well articulated, not least by my…07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Will the Minister give way?07 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)That was a long intervention, but it was helpful. I disagree with the hon. Gentleman, because the legislation is not seeking to require technology companies or the providers of…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)The hon. Member has hit the nail on the head. A single patient record is not the same thing as mandating that 450 record-keeping systems become one. In fact, the single patient…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)The hon. Gentleman is making the point that I have been trying to. He referred to a number of companies that each provide an electronic record-keeping system. The Bill does not…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)I will pick up where the hon. Member for Lichfield left off. I make it clear that a single patient record is not a single electronic record-keeping system. Also, the single…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)I thank the Minister for clarifying that the data will continue to be stored and held in the databases in the electronic record-keeping system where it is currently kept. I am not…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)Plainly, there is already scope for this to happen and sadly patient records are wrongly accessed, either inadvertently through mistake or deliberately in bad faith. However, from…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eleventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms Lewell. I wish to speak on this aspect of the single patient record. Although I support the general intention and aim of the…02 Jul 2026HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, yesterday in Westminster Hall, the Maritime Minister, the hon. Member for Selby (Keir Mather), may have inadvertently misled the House. I confirm that I have…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Tenth sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree that reporting between urban and rural, which runs through these amendments, is particularly useful? Many of the solutions put forward throughout this…02 Jul 2026HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, yesterday in Westminster Hall, the Maritime Minister, the hon. Member for Selby (Keir Mather), may have inadvertently misled the House. I confirm that I have…02 Jul 2026HANSARD Coastguard Volunteers: Remuneration and HMRC GuidanceI thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way and congratulate him on securing this really important debate. Does he share my concern that, from the Isle of Wight to Orkney and…01 Jul 2026HANSARD Coastguard Volunteers: Remuneration and HMRC Guidancerose—01 Jul 2026HANSARDDepartment of Health and Social CareGiven that there are so many unanswered questions and such little information, rather than estimates day, wouldn’t the better name for this debate be “a complete stab in the dark”…30 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Eighth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Jeremy. There is a consensus—not just in this room, but within Parliament and going back several decades—that we want more…30 Jun 2026