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HANSARD Historical Stillbirth Burials and CremationsWith the leave of the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to sum up the debate. It has been, as these debates often are, very moving and very thought-provoking. We heard…06 Feb 2020HANSARD Historical Stillbirth Burials and CremationsI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. I know about the work she has been doing in Hull. She has articulated in the past why it is clearly important for such inquiries to…06 Feb 2020HANSARD Historical Stillbirth Burials and CremationsI thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention, as he raises the very point: the support is not consistent across the piece. We rightly raise that issue when we discuss these…06 Feb 2020HANSARD Historical Stillbirth Burials and CremationsI do not normally start with warm words about a Minister’s speech, but what we have just heard shows great empathy for and insight into an incredibly difficult subject. I thank…06 Feb 2020HANSARD TransportSome 78% of people in Ellesmere Port and Neston use private motor transport to get to work, compared with a national average of 63%. Perhaps in a constituency known for building…05 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillAcross the piece, some areas in Wales are actually performing better than areas in England. The direction of travel is the right one. If the right hon. Member is so interested in…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillMy hon. Friend makes a pertinent point. Both my parents are residents of north Wales but on occasion use the Countess of Chester Hospital. This process does not take account of…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillThere are indeed many weaknesses in the Bill, which, given that it is so short, is quite an achievement on the Government’s part. That is the point of the new clause. We cannot…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillMy hon. Friend is again showing what an assiduous and determined constituency MP he is. He might want to look at the NHS Providers report today, which sets out some of the…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right: it is a matter of some regret that public health has not been included in the Bill. As we have said repeatedly, we have to look at the health…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillI am sure that if my hon. Friend continues with his determined campaign, he will see that hospital appear. His point about health inequalities is really important. It is…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I understand his frustration absolutely. I think he has a very fair point, Dame Rosie, that because of the Barnett consequentials…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillThe hon. Gentleman makes an important point. We have all heard horror stories of workers in the health service having to turn on seven or eight different computer systems and use…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillThere has to be a correlation between the number of closures my hon. Friend is seeing and his CCG’s debts, which he was referring to earlier. The pressure on frontline services is…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillI beg to move amendment 2, page 1, line 10, at end insert— “(1A) The amount spent on mental health services in each financial year set out in the table must be set out in a…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Dame Rosie. In my speech I will address amendment 2 and, as we are dealing with everything in one go, the other amendments and new…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillMy hon. Friend sets out very clearly the challenge that the Government face from the debt situation in the NHS. Both in-year deficits and total debt to Government have not been…04 Feb 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseLast summer, the Government announced a £3.6 billion town fund and identified 100 towns that were to benefit from it. I was disappointed that Ellesmere Port and Neston—30 Jan 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI was disappointed that those towns, and Little Neston, were not on the list, so I began tabling written questions about the basis on which successful towns were selected. I got a…30 Jan 2020HANSARD HomelessnessDoes my hon. Friend agree that more needs to be done to advocate for the people who lose their lives, as he says, to understand what led them to that sad situation in the first…29 Jan 2020