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HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (First sitting)Q That is really helpful and very clear. The chief executive and the finance director of the integrated care board are clearly accountable. To whom are they accountable? Amanda…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (First sitting)Q So when I have an issue that I want to bring to my local integrated care board’s finance director and chief executive, I will take it through to NHS England and then back to…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Second sitting)Can I just clarify—07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Second sitting)Q Following up on that point, I do not know whether our witnesses heard our earlier session, but I asked them about this very issue of decision making, governance and…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Second sitting)Q The bulk of the Bill is about us in England looking at integrated care systems. Obviously, you operate according to a unitary provision already. I am not sure who is best placed…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (First sitting)Q Can I ask about clause 20, which is about externally financed development agreements? In your view, is there a role in that clause to develop primary care and community estate?…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareAs well as the 30,000 beds that the Prime Minister talked about, we know there has been a 36% increase in people dying at home through the pandemic in circumstances that we know…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (First sitting)Q Welcome to our witnesses. Ms Pritchard, welcome to your new role. We have just heard some interesting evidence, and I want us to be very specific about our terminology when we…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (First sitting)Q I appreciate that people working together and perhaps substantiating some of those informal arrangements might, in theory, do some of what you hope. However, the employers…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (First sitting)Q So how do we, in the system, ensure the development of primary and community estate? Are we in the queue with the Treasury, behind the 40 or whatever hospitals? Is there any way…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (First sitting)Q Just to be clear, where would this capital come into the system? Presumably it would come to the ICB, as the accountable body. Where would the capital separately come from?…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Second sitting)Q If I may, I will return to the permissiveness and place conversation. I agree with the Bill’s direction of travel around place. I do not like the word “permissiveness”, because…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Second sitting)Chair, can I come back?07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Second sitting)Q I hope that this is in scope, Mr McCabe. I have just come from the Chamber, where the Prime Minister is still on his feet. He talked about integrated care records, but I am not…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Second sitting)Chair, I have another question.07 Sept 2021HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolTrade is the way to the peace and prosperity we need to see in Northern Ireland, and it is ready to make the best of both worlds. This issue needs to be resolved very quickly. The…21 Jul 2021HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI support all the comments that my right hon. Friend the Member for Torfaen (Nick Thomas-Symonds) made, particularly those about the right to legitimate protest, but I draw the…05 Jul 2021HANSARDCatch-up PremiumI pay tribute to all the school leaders in colleges and schools across south Bristol, and particularly to the parents and young people, for getting through this difficult year.…15 Jun 2021HANSARDCatch-up PremiumI am grateful for the plug for the former Prime Minister, who made “education, education, education” a mantra. I was and remain very proud of the difference it made to kids in…15 Jun 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI have listened to the words this afternoon, but my constituents living in leasehold properties in Bedminster and elsewhere are rightly furious now with the Government for…14 Jun 2021