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HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I am merely trying to ensure we make good progress today. Those bodies ensure medication is used to maximum benefit, including safety and making efficient use of NHS resources.…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful for the Minister’s comments. The Opposition would not want to be accused of being over-prescriptive—that is certainly not what we intend. I appreciate what the…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)The Minister has made some interesting points. I will have to come back on the reference to “weasel words”. I was a lawyer for a number of years, and when it comes to their use, I…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I will not detain the Committee as I have already said most of what I wanted to say. The Minister just talked about the ambitious aims to achieve integration. Obviously, they were…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)We can never be too ambitious, can we? I will be interested to see those working practices. As hon. Members can probably gather, we are somewhat sceptical that the ICPs will…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I do not know whether it is too late on a Thursday afternoon, but I did feel like I had wandered into an episode of “Yes Minister” there. I will not press the amendment to a vote,…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 43, in schedule 2, page 123, line 2, at end insert— “(5) An integrated care board must apply all relevant collective agreements for staff pay, conditions…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for his comments, but I fear that I will disappoint him on this occasion. He mentioned the flexibilities that already exist, which we do not seek to…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)As he does regularly. I write to him regularly, too. He mentioned the importance of having this in black and white, and that is where we agree. We do need this in black and white,…16 Sept 2021HANSARD Levelling-up AgendaIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley Central (Dan Jarvis) on securing the debate, which is…15 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 18, in clause 1, page 1, line 5, at end insert— “(1A) The Board of NHS England shall be made up of— (a) a Chair appointed by the Secretary of State, (b)…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 49, in clause 13, page 8, line 34, after “board”, insert “NHS trust, NHS foundation trust, trade union, patient representatives and local authority”. This…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful for the Minister’s comments, not least the promotion he inadvertently gave me by referring to me as shadow Secretary of State. We should have a Division on that,…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 19, in clause 3, page 2, line 12, leave out paragraph (e) and insert— “(e) after subsection (6) insert— ‘(6A) The Secretary of State may revise the mandate…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fifth sitting)These amendments to clause 3 deal with the mandate to NHS England. The mandate was part of the changes that were introduced to attempt to distance the role of Government and…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire for promoting me to the Privy Council. At this rate I will be Prime Minister by lunchtime and supreme leader of the universe by the…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fifth sitting)I am sure we are all excited to get this one passed—I am certainly not going to oppose it. However, I have a couple of questions of clarification.14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)We will not be opposing this clause. Clearly, as the Minister has set out, it is necessary to enable the functioning of the health service. I have one question about the powers…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)Again, we will not oppose the clause, but I have a query about the powers under proposed new section 65Z4(4), particularly in the context of what the Secretary of State said at…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)Again, I will not detain the Committee for long: I just have a question for the Minister. The more we get into the Bill, the less permissive it appears to be. I have no doubt that…14 Sept 2021