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HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twelfth sitting)There is an army of accountants out there suddenly looking at their abacuses and speeding up the work they are doing. My hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham North mentioned…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move amendment 93, in clause 67, page 60, line 15, at end insert— “(1AA) The regulations must make provision— (a) for anyone with a diagnosis of terminal illness to be…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for his response. He mentioned the ministerial oversight group on advanced care planning. Would he be able to indicate when we will hear from that…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause 67 ordered to stand part of the Bill. Schedule 11 agreed to. Clause 68 Procurement relations23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twelfth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for a fantastically thorough, comprehensive and damming indictment on everything that has come before and for some warnings about what may face us. I rise…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twelfth sitting)I echo the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham North. We discussed this when the Bill hit the Vote Office, because from a system management point of view I saw…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twelfth sitting)I will not push my amendment to a vote, but I seek responses from the Minister. I want to highlight the issue that we touched on earlier, and I am grateful for his comments, about…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eleventh sitting)My hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston asked about care trusts, and the clause is partly designed for just that. The real problem with the clause and with joint…23 Sept 2021HANSARD Violence Against Women and Girls: Police ResponseViolence against women and girls needs to be treated in much the same way as terrorism and county lines. It is about resources. It cannot be left to local forces and police and…22 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Tenth sitting)I would like the Committee to take a moment to mourn the loss of the principle of autonomy as a guiding driver of the health service over some 20-plus years. That principle is…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point, which we will come on to when we discuss the following clauses. If there is no autonomy, but we are trying to be permissive,…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Tenth sitting)It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Kingswood. I feel the need for us to write a book or a pamphlet about the planned reconfiguration of health services in…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Tenth sitting)We could spend a lot of time on this, but I think the Minister is saying that this could happen if there is a dispute within the public at any stage—perhaps at the outline…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Ninth sitting)My hon. Friend is right in what he says. Given Monitor’s role, NHS Improvement’s role and local scrutiny of what is happening within the system—it is almost independent in some…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyMy hon. Friend is making an excellent point about inflation. He and I may be of a similar age and remember how, perhaps in our younger years, inflation was such an important issue…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Ninth sitting)The right hon. Gentleman is making some excellent points. He and I share a health economy, two universities and a thriving region, but we still have problems. People in my…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Ninth sitting)I entirely concur with the comments of my hon. Friend, who asked: if not now, when? The right hon. Member for Kingswood described this as a short clause, but one that is hugely…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Ninth sitting)Given that the Minister, who I think is an honourable man, has mentioned that, does he think it acceptable for the chair of NHS Improvement to take the Conservative Whip in the…21 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)I agree, and we will probably all have examples through the primary care networks of practices that were not in old houses but that had perhaps had a LIFT scheme or another new…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for his comments, which I will read and understand carefully. We would still like our dividend back; it is an important principle of localism and,…16 Sept 2021