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HANSARD Cross-border HealthcareIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (David Chadwick) for securing this important debate. I…04 Nov 2025HANSARD Cross-border HealthcareI will get through all the points, if I can, because I know there are lots of issues to address. As I was about to say, too many people are still waiting, but we are committed to…04 Nov 2025HANSARDEarly Pandemic PPE ProcurementDuring the gathering and review of evidence for module five of the covid-19 public inquiry, officials at the Cabinet Office concluded in April 2024 that another supplier, Luxe…30 Oct 2025HANSARDObesity and Fatty Liver DiseaseIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Worthing West (Dr Cooper) on securing the debate. We have veered quite a…28 Oct 2025HANSARDObesity and Fatty Liver DiseaseMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The pride in place programme does just as it says on the tin, and it is important. The Government’s drive is to make sure that those…28 Oct 2025HANSARDNHS Workforce Levels: Impact on Cancer PatientsI do not have those numbers to hand but, as we outlined in the 10-year health plan, we are particularly committed to people in rural and coastal communities with regard to…23 Oct 2025HANSARDMenopause and the NHS Health CheckMy noble friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Women’s Health and Mental Health (Baroness Merron) has made the following written statement: Today I…23 Oct 2025HANSARDNHS Workforce Levels: Impact on Cancer PatientsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Hobhouse. I thank the hon. Member for Wokingham (Clive Jones) for securing the debate, and for getting through it—I hope he is…23 Oct 2025HANSARDNew Hospital ProgrammeThe hon. Member makes an excellent point; it was echoed by Lord Darzi in his report about the state of our hospitals, and I know many hon. Members have similar problems. I have…21 Oct 2025HANSARDNHS ReorganisationWe are putting the final nail in the coffin of the hon. Member’s party’s disastrous Lansley 2012 reorganisation—so bad that it made me become an MP. We are abolishing the world’s…21 Oct 2025HANSARDNHS ReorganisationAll of us as constituency MPs are fully aware of the state of mental health services, particularly for young people, which is why my hon. Friend the Minister for Care is working…21 Oct 2025HANSARDNHS ReorganisationAgain, I echo comments on the state of mental health services, as the hon. Member has done. As it says in our manifesto, we are committed to those 8,500 extra mental health…21 Oct 2025HANSARDNHS ReorganisationAs my right hon. Friend has just said, we have delivered on that commitment. The hon. Member talks about the reorganisation being a distraction. If her party had focused…21 Oct 2025HANSARDNHS ReorganisationOn the hon. Lady’s first point, this Government, unlike the previous Government, do believe in experts, and we follow the clinical advice that we are given. On her second point,…21 Oct 2025HANSARDHealth Service SpendingAs I answered in response to my hon. Friend the Member for Blyth and Ashington (Ian Lavery), we will absolutely ensure that we learn the lessons of the last Government’s failure.21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic-private PartnershipsLet me be clear: this Government will always protect the NHS and have the service free at the point of use for everyone. This Government are determined to shift health out of…21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic-private PartnershipsI thank my hon. Friend for his words of encouragement and congratulation. I assure him that lessons have been learned; we will ensure value for taxpayers’ money in all future…21 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic-private PartnershipsIt is absolutely the role of the hon. Lady’s local integrated care board to ensure that it involves all partners, particularly primary care, in the exciting roll-out of…21 Oct 2025HANSARDHealth Service SpendingAs well as the record investment that we put into the NHS, we are ensuring that we get a better bang for the taxpayer’s buck. Under the Conservatives, for example, the NHS was…21 Oct 2025HANSARDHealth Service SpendingAs he often does, the hon. Gentleman highlights in his own very rural constituency some of the fundamental problems at the heart of our NHS. That is why we are reforming it,…21 Oct 2025