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HANSARD Branded Medicines Voluntary Scheme and the Life Sciences VisionIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma. I understand that Parliament is technically in recess, but here we are working hard to the last on this very…03 May 2023HANSARDList of Ministers’ Interests and Ministerial CodeIn our Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee report into the Greensill affair, we suggested: “The Government should outline the range of sanctions and…24 Apr 2023HANSARD Medicinal Cannabis: Economic ContributionIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer, and to be present for this debate. I take what the right hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Budget Resolutions and Economic SituationI am on the optimistic side of the spectrum that the Chancellor was talking about today. I would welcome measures on prepayment meters and some support for suicide prevention, but…15 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayMy hon. Friend is making an excellent point. Does she agree that it is astonishing that the Government are not looking at the issue in the way that we have done? They are…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayInternational Women’s Day is a time to celebrate, and there is much to celebrate about being a woman in 2023. I always think at this time of my friends, many now spread across the…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayI am not ignoring it, and I pay tribute particularly to the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) for the work she led in government, but we need to continue to use…09 Mar 2023HANSARDCovid Pandemic: Testing of Care Home ResidentsThe Government entered the pandemic unprepared, ignoring the lessons from Operation Cygnus, and ran the NHS at 96% capacity. That was part of the problem. We all know that…01 Mar 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionThe hon. Lady talks a great deal about the inputs of the SNP Government in Scotland, but very little about the outcomes there. Does she not agree that, rather than carping about…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionWill the Minister give way?28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI want to pick up the point about social care, on which, as the Minister knows, I am very keen to see progress. Her Government shelved their social care plans. The former Prime…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionHaving spent most of my career in NHS management roles before becoming an MP, I often reflect on my own motivation for choosing two such unpopular careers—ones that, like the…28 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolAs chair of the all-party group on Ireland and the Irish in Britain, I believe that, over the past few years, the state of the relationship between London and Dublin has been of…27 Feb 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Executive Formation) BillThe British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly, of which I am a vice-chair, will meet for a session in Stormont in early March—led by the right hon. Member for Staffordshire Moorlands…22 Feb 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Executive Formation) BillThese are indeed serious problems. I also went to that fantastic event on Monday. Many of the people I spoke to there had started their businesses in the past three to five years,…22 Feb 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseI take my responsibilities on the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee seriously in scrutinising the Cabinet Office. I was pleased to have had a question…02 Feb 2023HANSARDUrgent and Emergency Care Recovery PlanThe people of Bristol South will be ever so grateful to have data that they are waiting 12 hours, rather than perhaps ringing me up to tell me they have been waiting 12 hours. The…30 Jan 2023HANSARDApprenticeships: Government SupportThat is a subject worthy of a debate on its own. I spoke to one of the Minister’s predecessors, who was a nurse at one point, about that very problem. It is a thorny issue, but it…24 Jan 2023HANSARDApprenticeships: Government SupportI agree that degree apprenticeships have their place, but that is not what the levy was for. As I have heard regularly in the debates I have attended in the seven years for which…24 Jan 2023HANSARDApprenticeships: Government SupportI agree that degree apprenticeships are a good thing. I am more concerned about levels 2 and 3 in my constituency, but I recently spoke to graduates at the University of Exeter…24 Jan 2023